Trump Impeachment Odds: How many senators will vote to convict?
Trump Impeachment Odds: How many senators will vote to convict?
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The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins today, February 9, 2021. Accused of “incitement of insurrection,” the 100 senators will hear arguments from Democratic House Managers and a Republican Congessional defense, with a brand new team of lawyers to defend Trump. How many senators will vote to convict?
The trial itself is interesting in a way, because nearly everyone involved would have been in the Capitol when insurrectionists stormed the building on January 6; the crime that led to this impeachment. So the senators being asked to pass judgement are victims of the crime. But the popular debate has not so much been around whether Trump is guilty, but rather whether America should heal and move on.
US awaits an unparalleled and ugly Trump trial
05 Feb 2021 Former US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. File/Agence France-Presse
Andrew Feinberg,
The Independent
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The last time Trump was impeached, that time for a quid pro quo connected to now-President Biden and Ukraine, was just under a year ago. Yet in many ways, not much has changed since the last time Trump found himself in the senatorial dock. While Democrats now hold a majority in the upper chamber by virtue of Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote, there do not appear to be more than a handful of Republicans who ar
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