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Jennifer Harper

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Jennifer Harper wrote the daily Inside the Beltway column for The Washington Times.

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Multiple polls, including one from CNN, reveals that support for the impeachment of President Trump has fallen in the last three weeks. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Polls show support for impeachment now ‘under water’

Americans are rejecting impeachment, reveals not just one poll, but multiple polls. Let's start with a new CNN poll now reveals that support for the impeachment of President Trump has fallen by 5 percentage points in the last three weeks -- dropping from 50% to 45% since Nov. 24. Another 48% say there is not enough evidence to impeach Mr. Trump while 47% say he should not be impeached at all.

December 17, 2019
Impeachment activities have taken a toll on Congress. One lawmaker urges his peers to be problem solvers not "circus performers." (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Ill will and impeachment corrodes Congress

The evidence mounts daily. Clear, practical, aggressive policy fostered by President Trump and his administration has helped the nation. The economy is humming, the stock market roaring, wages and job creation are up, and consumers have historic levels of optimism. The next level of success will require Congress to get back in touch with their role as public servants, step up to the plate and get back to business, says one Ohio Republican.

December 16, 2019
A new Cold War could be brewing in an even colder place: the Arctic. One Alaska senator wants the U.S. to be prepared. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: A new Cold War heats up in the Arctic

The old Cold War has not completely disappeared. It's gotten colder — frozen, in fact. Russia is mighty active in the Arctic, home to untapped mineral, natural gas and oil deposits plus newly expanded shipping lanes. Indeed, Russia has recently resumed fighter patrols over the North Pole, bulked up northern air bases and tested the fearsome Kinzhal Dagger hypersonic missile in the region. Also on their to-do list: perfecting a fleet of ice-hardened shipping vessels and burly ice breakers — including the Arktika, a nuclear-powered vessel which is 568 feet long, has a crew of 75 and can crush through Arctic ice 10-feet thick. There will be four more in this class, and initial sea trials began last week.

December 15, 2019
A clinical psychologist now cautions that the extended impeachment frenzy could affect the nation's collective mental state —in a bad way. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Psychologist cites ‘childlike reactions of our political leaders’

Public fatigue with the possible impeachment of President Trump is growing. Multiple polls have suggested that many Americans are either not interested in the Democratic Party's impeachment push or don't approve of it. But there could also be some collateral damage. Clinical forensic psychologist John Huber warns that an endless impeachment cycle could take a toll on the nation as voters witness a "process" which could prove faulty on a very high level.

December 12, 2019
Lynnette Hardaway, left, and Rochelle Richardson, a.k.a. Diamond and Silk, arrive at the LA Premiere of "Death of a Nation" at the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live on Monday, July 31, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Diamond and Silk get a major book deal

"Diamond and Silk": They are well-known and much appreciated by millions of Republicans and conservatives for their consistent, straightforward and spirited support of President Trump and his administration. Now they have a book deal to tell their own story.

December 12, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., gives final remarks during a hearing where former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Bill O'Leary/Pool Photo via AP)

Impeachment reading: Book based on House Intelligence Committee report on the way

Impeachment reading continues to be popular. After special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released last year, multiple news organizations and publishers scrambled to release the contents of the report in book form, adding their own graphics, commentary and noteworthy packaging. The House Intelligence Committee's lengthy report on President Trump's possible impeachment is about to get the same treatment.

December 11, 2019
A new poll finds that President Trump actually has better favorability ratings than his Democratic rivals in the 2020 presidential race. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Favorability: Trump bests all the Democrats in voter poll

Well, there you go. Tee-hee. A little moment of truth. Amid all the caterwaul about impeachment, collusion and other strategic media buzzwords of the moment comes some hard news and numbers. President Trump has a higher favorability rating than every one of his Democratic rivals in the White House race.

December 10, 2019
Fox News' Sean Hannity topped the list of the nation's "most important" radio hosts, according to Talkers Magazine. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sean Hannity says he’s at his best when he devotes ‘quiet time’ to God

Fox News prime-time host Sean Hannity consistently tops the ratings at his network, typically drawing 3 million nightly viewers who are eager for his take on politics and life in America. Mr. Hannity is also a man of faith and publicly reveals the particulars during an upcoming two-part appearance on Fox Nation, the network's popular on-demand streaming service.

December 10, 2019
"Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd compared the impeachment inquiry against President Trump to the trial of O.J. Simpson. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Uh-oh: Media fails to impeach Trump

Maybe it's just a temporary glitch in the big media machine, but some observers are now saying that the liberal press is getting tense and/or mournful that President Trump may not be impeached on schedule — or he may never be impeached.

December 9, 2019
Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey is one of two Democratic lawmakers who broke ranks with his party and opposes the impeachment inquiry. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Impeachment presents moral dilemma for Democrat defectors

When and if the time comes for a House vote in the impeachment of President Trump, many wonder if there will be a few unconvinced Democratic lawmakers who will, uh, side with the Republicans and stand against the vote. It is the moral dilemma of the moment among those who sense that Mr. Trump has not committed any impeachable offenses — particularly those vulnerable Democrats in swing states full of Trump fans. Even The Washington Post is now addressing this phenomenon, and the potential risks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces in her zeal to impeach the president.

December 8, 2019
One veteran pollster now calls for the nation to balance out differences with one another to ensure society will "thrive and survive." (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: A pollster’s warning about outrage politics

There is a lot of squawking and snarling about politics out there — and a lot of melancholy tales of families and friends who part ways over political beliefs. There's hostility — and even murmurs of a possible civil war in the United States as political polarization gets extreme and compromise gets rare.

December 5, 2019
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, California Democrat, has become more visible because of his role in the impeachment inquiry. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Is Adam Schiff going to run for president?

A new set of impeachment hearings is now underway. But the after-effects of the previous set of hearings have not been forgotten — and they have now fostered an unusual political by-product. Consider that the nation had become quite familiar with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff. The California Democrat was on-camera and in the news for weeks during the first impeachment hearings.

December 4, 2019
Fake news is now the subject of a scientific experiment revealing true human reactions to the phenomenon. (Associated Press)

Tricky: Fake news appears truthful the more we see it, new research finds

President Trump could be morally justified in his criticism of fake news -- that tricky misinformation that appears real but is laden with agenda, ulterior motives or sensationalism. Fake news feels "less immoral" to share when we've seen it before," said the Association for Psychological Science, which has published new research revealing this unexpected phenomenon.

December 4, 2019