Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has better than a 50-50 chance of voting to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office, Axios reported on Tuesday night.
McConnell believes Trump has committed multiple impeachable offenses and is pleased at the idea of Trump being impeached and removed from office, The New York Times also reported earlier in the day.
McConnell thinks that Trump being impeached and then potentially convicted and ousted from office by the US Senate will make it easier to purge him from the party, The Times said, citing people familiar with his thinking.
His potential vote to convict, however, isn t a done deal yet. I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate, McConnell said on Wednesday.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, is calling on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene the Senate so legislators can vote on impeaching President Donald Trump. (Jan. 12)
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