It seems pretty much a given that Articles of Impeachment will be drafted against President Trump in the House. However, it is also just as likely that he will not be convicted and removed from office in the Republican dominated Senate.
However, some political experts are predicting that while Trump will stay, the GOP majority in the Senate could be a victim of the fallout from an impeachment trial. Democrats are targeting President Trump. What they may get instead is the Senate, and could this really be their plan all along?
According to David M. Drucker, writing for the Washington Examiner, here is how and why this can play out.
In a Senate trial to adjudicate articles of impeachment sent up by the House, “at least a handful of vulnerable Senate Republicans risk the wrath of grassroots conservatives if they vote to convict and remove Trump from office. The same group, staring down impeachment with the 2020 primary season drawing near, could just as easily alienate general election voters with a vote to acquit the president,” writes Drucker.
He goes on to say that while Trump is unlikely to be convicted by the Senate, some Republicans will be tempted to support it.
“The House makes the articles of impeachment; we sit as a jury,” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley told reporters Monday. “There isn’t any way you’re going to know how that plays out until it’s part of public discussion.”
As of the most recent polls, Republican voters are heavily against impeachment. Democrats are strongly in favor, and independents are leaning supportive. It is that dynamic that could squeeze Republican incumbents up for reelection in battleground states, forcing them to choose between appeasing a feverishly pro-Trump GOP base or distancing themselves from an unpopular president to appeal to swing voters and soft partisans. Among them are Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and Martha McSally of Arizona.
“They were all going to have tough races to begin with, and Trump isn’t making it any easier on them,” said a Republican strategist, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly.
Republicans Senators Will Be Bound By the Rules
Under Senate rules, Republicans during a trial would be severely limited from running interference for Trump. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts would preside and hold significant power over motions, and that could present more problems for Republicans. Republicans could find themselves fending off accusations from the Right that they are abetting the Democrats if the trial goes poorly for the president.
“Senators don’t have an active role. The rules mandate that we sit silently,” Sen. Josh Hawley told the Washington Examiner. The Missouri Republican conceded that there would be virtually nothing he or his GOP colleagues could do to overturn rulings made by Roberts that might damage Trump. “It will be strange and it will be hard,” he said.
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Impeachment proceedings are a farce and are completely political without any basis in fact. The American people need to have the Democrat’s plans & options clearly explained – that they are trying to overturn a legally elected President or at least try to unseat the Senate Republican majority for political purposes only. Americans should support the President, increase the majority in the Senate and vote the Democrats out of the house for their political, un-American fake impeachment plans.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR TREASON. THEY HAVE NOT ALLOWED OUR PRESIDENT TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY FORWARD BY COMING UP WITH ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER TO DIVIDE OUR CITIZENS.
Well it shows that the Republicans have to many Morons in there party.
The had the House and the Senate however seem to menage to lose the House,
thanks to guys like McCain, Flake and who many others.
Bottom line, the can not even support there President – the have to put a weasel like
like Walsh and party to run against Trump in 2020, the never learn.
What a bunch of grease balls..;
Against this witch-hunt of our President! I hope the Democrats live to regret all they have done. This has been and ongoing battle, since the day he was elected! We were all quiet when Obama took office. They have smeared the entire system by doing this. They have shown that the Government does what they want, ignoring the people’s choice!! We should fire all of them, including Republicans that don’t support our President! Anyone that doesn’t back him will not have my votes, and I will let everyone knows my thoughts on this!! Trump 2020
VOTE RED …If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place. CLAPPER’S OWN CONFESSION
AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
I have not searched for the various rules stating what the Senate is supposed to do with an impeachment? Just that the Constitution says that a trial will take place in the Senate.Says nothing about what the House can or can not do.It seemed that many Republicans did not support Trump as the Candidate, and have held back support for him every since. If these candidates are not behind him now maybe they should resign. By the way all office holders are required by law to resign before seeking an office, can not seek what they already occupy.
Couldn’t think of a better outcome. None of them deserve to be there; no courage, no honor.
“WE” did NOT vote for Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Waters . “WE” voted for Trump! All 3 branches of Gov’t are supposed to be equal! So “WHAT” happened here? These “bums” have been in THERE TOO LONG! ONE BRANCH of Gov’t should NOT be more powerful than “the other”! SO “THE HOUSE” is NOW the executive branch? Used to be Legislative but NOT NOW! It’s TIME these imbedded 30+ yr. “politicians to get the “heave -ho”!The “House” should NOT be holding up the “people’s business “. It’s TIME for a “CHANGE” & “THE PURSE STRINGS” should be evenly SPLIT between House & Senate.
We have 3 equal branches of Gov’t. So WHY is the “HOUSE” calling all the shots? Simple. These 30+ yr. politicians have got to GO! The House hold the “purse strings” & THIS needs to be split with the Senate. Too boot Ca. “whackos” hold too many seats. “WE” voted for Trump, NOT Pelosi, Waters, Schiff, Feinstein,(ALL Ca.) or Nadler, Schumer (All N.Y.) who are “running the Show”! Too boot we have “career” CIA, FBI, State, Pentagon who value their pensions & perks MORE than “US”, the voters who PAY for all this! VOTE THEM OUT!
So if you are a Democrat everything in your favor!! Cause you pout and throw a temper tantrum like a 2 year old who doesn’t get their way. So I say Republicans you have got to stand strong with our President! For he is doing what is right for America!! I know a couple of republicans who don’t like Mitt Romney for one he is really a demo called traitor!! Are Hillary and mitt cousins they sure act like it!!! So God help our President from the evilness that is trying to take our President down!!! God bless our President and God bless America!!! All things are POSs with God!!! We Americans must pray for our nation and for our President!!!?????????
I will probably rethink some of my choices, but I will fight to keep the majority.
I think instead that the GOP, voting with their CONSCIENCE and stating as such (with clearly stated LOGICAL sound reasoning and righteousness) will be the winners INSTEAD. The POPULACE is tired of this SHAM and DEMOCRAT SCAM. Whoever WROTE this piece may need to logically think this through (Or maybe they have, and tried to SCAM us as a “Scare Tactic”). It’s QUITE OBVIOUS that this writer DOES NOT know the Trump supporter. He knows that POTUS TRUMP and the GOP goes together, ESPECIALLY for Survival and GOOD results. I.e. “you better be a TRUMP supporter to survive this political climate”. Team Trump and his allies 2020 – KAGA (Keep America Great Again).
guess there will be no reason to vote in this country anymore thanks to the democrats but this also sends this country into a dark era that the democrats might not like considering taking away freedom from americans just might not be a smart idea and there are many vets out there that fought foreign countries to keep just that so fighting a political party here isn’t much different. the democrats are this countries real enemy.
So true leave president Trump alone let him clean the swamp get rid of all the scum that surrounds him this is what he has proven over and over again that he has accomplished more in his term so far than any other president so far.
America is already great let him make it whole again.
Term limits..has to be. They are too immersed in the swamp. Liberal judges have taken power of the Presidency away and thwarts his programs. Not right..in fact very dangerous to let an unelected group have that much power. This is just the beginning of how things become like dictatorships, Nazi Germany. The masses don’t see it coming. It is like a secret club financed by those like Soros. That an outsider like Trump could invade and possibly expose their secret club was not bearable to them..which he is doing..thus the great push against him. It is a goog thing he is a strong, resolute man..and wealthy. They cannot’t ruin him financially like Flynn and others. Stand behind him.
Crazy..Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Waters, Cummins, etc, can’t even represent or aide their states and they want to be in charge of a country. Dangerous people.
What is happening is being done cravenly in a strictly political manner – just what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. Previous congresses have totally understood that. How can a substantial number of Americans think it is OK to turn Impeachment over to an epitome of a Sleazy, oily Politician. People who hate Trump are so into that, they don’t care that the upper echelons of our FBI with abetting from CIA and NSA began a project to “get rid” of first Candidate Trump and then the President – at the same time the person in Charge of Impeachment came on national TV several times and said he, himself, had SEEN evidence from the Mueller report showing Trump to to GUILTY of “whatever” with the Russians. (He always used the word Collusion with the Russians, though every lawyer, including, finally, Mueller, said that collusion was not a crime). As one lawyer said that was why Hillary was not guilty either when her campaign paid millions to have a foreign agent try to find dirt (in Russia) on her political foe, Mr. Trump!! As soon as the Mueller didn’t prove to be their ouster of the president, they messed around for a week or two with finding obstruction themselves, and then went straight to the CIA mole who had been placed in the White House to spy on the president of the USA. Folks, anyone with a lick of common sense can figure out if there was anything nefarious going on with Trump or his campaign, the FBI and/or the Muller group with unlimited FBI aid and millions of dollars would have FOUND IT! Does America want this debacle to be the standard for picking a president and keeping him in office for the future – because precedent is a dangerous thing to set!!???
If any Senator goes along with Pelosi who is a member of the Communist Party USA then those Senators are considered members of the Communist Party USA with Pelosi. This will tell us who are the Communists in the Senate especially on the GOP side.
If any Senator goes along with Pelosi who is a member of the Communist Party USA then those Senators are considered members of the Communist Party USA with Pelosi. This will tell us who are the Communists in the Senate especially on the GOP side. I am pointing out who in GOP is a communist and I am not repeating myself