CHARLOTTE- After weeks and months of planning from the Democratic camp,
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is finally underway in Washington, D.C. But as Democrats present their arguments against the President
The President's allies say they are witnessing a different movement outside the beltway.
"You’ve heard from the campaign officials for the Trump/ Pence re-elect that this has actually helped fundraising tremendously,” says Adviser to the President Kellyanne Conway. “It’s nothing that we asked for. We did not want the president impeached."
Wednesday, Conway was in Charlotte to personally meet with Republican volunteers.
"They have 2 million volunteers,” Conway explained. “They just knocked on the one millionth door. That’s incredible."
Supporters she says have only been encouraged to do more by Democrats in Washington, D.C.
"There’s so much great news happening in our country regardless of what some of the Presidents detractors and critics, and maybe even haters are doing in Washington D.C. I think that’s ripping the country apart, he’s trying to put the country together.”
From trade deals that the President has completed, to economic changes, Conway says the President's supporters are more focused on the decisions, than the political game Democrats are trying to play.
"The USA today poll in December that impeachment ranked 11out of 12 in the top issues and even among Democrats,” says Conway. “Healthcare, immigration, gun control, those all, social security, those all ranked much higher than impeachment in terms of most important issues.”
And she believes the Democratic party is more focused on their 2016 loss, than the future.
“I think it’s very suspect in our country right now that this is the most efficient way for those in Washington who say they would like for Donald Trump not to be their President, the Democrats,” says Conway. “Then go beat him at the ballot box. You have a couple of months until that. And I think they have very little faith in their 2020 crowd.
Which is why Conway says instead of wasting time in chambers in Washington, the political focus should be on the voters and 2020.
"We would not want our taxpayer dollars and the members of Congress and Senators time wasted hours on end trying to impeach and remove a democratically elected President from office,” says Conway. “Especially so close to the next election. You want him out of office? Vote against him. Do it at the ballot box. Which is what our democracy allows all of us in our right to vote.”
Kellyanne Conway says it's not just volunteers who are getting out to the people, at the end of the conversation with us she told us that President Trump tweeted that he will be joining marchers at the March for life Friday on the National Mall.
Coming up this weekend on Spectrum News, Anchor Jonathan Lowe will have more from our conversation with Kellyanne Conway.