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Three years and two weeks after taking office, the president of the United States faces the start of the election campaign for re-election at its best. The impeachment has failed resoundingly, its popularity is at the highest point of its Presidency, and the Democratic opposition has perpetrated a ridiculous apocalyptic in the Iowa primaries, where that party has achieved the squaring of the circle - holding elections and being unable to count the votes - which has not only destroyed its prestige but also unleashed conspiracy theories about electoral fraud and favoritism of the apparatus towards some candidates. And all that, above, has happened in the week of the State of the Union Address, which the president read on Tuesday before Congress, and which is an extraordinary platform to convey his message to the whole country.

The icing on Trump's victories is obviously the end of impeachment. It is not that anyone expected the president to be dismissed when the House of Representatives president, Nancy Pelosi, launched a preliminary investigation four months and a half to determine whether there were grounds for impeachment over Trump's pressures against the Government of Ukraine to intervene in its favor in the 2020 campaign. In fact, Pelosi made that decision to curb pressure from the left wing of his party, which threatened to split the Democrats in two.

But not as expected, the result is less significant. Republicans have demonstrated a bomb-proof unit - despite the fact that one of the heavyweights, Mitt Romney, voted in favor of dismissal - by blocking the appearance of witnesses. The result has been a vote based on fidelity to each party. And, since Republicans have a majority in the Senate, yesterday they declared Trump innocent. That is a significant decision.

In the two impeachments that have occurred in the US before - in 1868 against Andrew Johsnon and in 1999 against Bill Clinton - the proposal to dismiss the president did not go ahead, but at least he got the majority of the Senate votes. With Trump, most senators voted against the two articles that were put to the vote: 'Abuse of power' and 'Obstruction of Congress'. The president overcame that of 'Abuse of power', with 52 'noes' and 48 'yeses'. As for the 'Obstruction to Congress', he also obtained a majority of 'noes': 53 versus 47. Thus, Trump is officially acquitted of the two charges of the 'impeachment'.

In other words: it is the equivalent of an acquittal in a trial . It is a victory with enormous symbolic and political value, because it confirms that Trump is above Congress. As historian Jon Meacham has stated, "this is possibly the most politically powerful president in US history."

Popularity

In fact, Trump had already entered this week very well. Its popularity is at 49%, according to the consultant Gallup, who conducts a national survey every week on the support for the president. That is the highest figure since Trump came to the Presidency, and leaves him literally one step away from re-election, especially if one considers that in 2016 he won the elections with 46.1% of the popular vote. Gallup figures reveal that Trump has absolutely record support among Republicans, something that was already revealed on Tuesday at the Iowa primary, where his party was able to count the votes and the president won 97.1 % of the ballots.

But Trump's popularity goes up everywhere. Although it is still at low levels, its support has reached the highest levels of its Presidency in trade, one of the axes of its economic policy, where a first-rate success was noted on January 16, when the Senate approved the revision of the Free Trade Agreement in force since 1995 between the US, Canada, and Mexico, and whose renegotiation had been one of the mainstays of Trump's management. The same is true in foreign policy, where 53% of citizens approve their decision to assassinate the military leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qasem Soleimani, on January 3, in a bombing at Baghdad airport. Half of Americans believe that Trump must be re-elected, according to Gallup . Never, in the three years and two weeks since his inauguration, had that figure been reached.

Meanwhile, the Democratic circus in Iowa continues. Only 75% of the polling stations had been counted, and the former mayor of the town of South Bend, the centrist Pete Buttigieg, was the one who obtained the most equivalent of delegates (because the system is so complex that one cannot even say that Candidates get delegates who will represent them at the June State Convention, which will leave other delegates for the July Democratic National Convention). He was followed by left wing leaders, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The candidate who leads the nationwide polls, former Vice President with Obama Joe Biden, was currently in a distant fourth place. Meanwhile, all the candidates are campaigning in New Hampshire, which celebrates their primaries on Tuesday, and where Sanders leaves as a clear favorite.

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