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Senate Democrats signal hope for bipartisan Trump impeachment trial Felicia Sonmez, Mike DeBonis As President Trump’s historic second impeachment trial looms, the Senate Democratic leader’s office is emphasizing cooperation with Republicans rather than conflict suggesting that Democrats want their latest effort to convict Trump to be more bipartisan than the last one, which saw a lone GOP senator break ranks with his party. Despite the unprecedented speed with which the House acted Wednesday impeaching the president one week after the deadly storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has rebuffed Democratic calls for the chamber to reconvene before Tuesday, its scheduled date and one day before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.