Despite the impeachment inquiry, Republicans and Trump officials made a detailed presentation on Thursday to show the re-election apparatus is chugging along steadily as the Democrats try to determine their nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/…
"They said that 8.8 million voters who were “very enthusiastic” about Mr. Trump in 2016 did not show up for the 2018 midterm elections because the president was not on the ballot. But they said those voters remained enthusiastic about Mr. Trump..." nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/…
"Most notably, Mr. Trump’s advisers laid out how many more votes he got in key Midwestern states like Wisconsin and Minnesota than Mitt Romney did as the Republican presidential nominee in 2012." nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/…
"The president has complained in the past about wasteful spending in the 2016 campaign, and Mr. Kushner, multiple people said, has also told him that audits have been conducted, although no such formal review led by the campaign has ever taken place." nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/…
"One person familiar with Mr. Kushner’s thinking said he had told the president that despite years of investigations nobody has ever found that money was misspent." nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/…
