Re: Will 17 Republican senators vote for impeachment?

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Jan 13, 2021, 7:19 PM

There's a boatload of difference.

Reps really don't have a lot of latitude to get out of sync with the immediate wishes of their constituents. They have 2-year terms.

Senators have 6-year terms...and they're usually veteran politicos who have been around the block a bunch of times and know when it's time to hop to the next wave. The ones who are standing again in 2022 will probably have the same level of pause as the Representatives, but the ones who aren't standing until 2024 or just got re-elected and won't stand again until 2026 - and this includes McConnell, by the way - have a lot more latitude to impeach because they know four or six years is an eternity in politics and the winds will have certainly shifted by then.

In particular I think this Trump wave is about to hit the rocks hard, and anybody who's still riding that wave is going to get absolutely worked. I see it, Mitch McConnell certainly sees it. And the more nimble and foresightful of them will smoothly hop right on to the next one claiming they always hated Donald (and secretly stood up to him) while dipsh!t newbs like Tommy Tuberville are getting made proxies for all the rage Trump earned on the Hill and ground into hamburger.

There's this concept the old-time politicos like to throw around: realpolitik. It's Mitch McConnell's one and only guiding light. I suspect we're about to see it again good and hard, and they're not going to buy Donald a drink first either.

Donald has become a liability, and is starting to stink up the room. What happens next is fairly...uhm, obvious.

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I hope you’re right, but roughly 5% of the house Republicans impeached him and now in the Senate 30% plus of the Republicans will have to impeach him. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Trumps speech tonight probably helped him. Clearly Trump realizes he has to do something to make Republican senators feel better.

Saw a prominent pollster interviewed tonight. I think his name is Frank Luntz. He had a focus group of voters in the last couple of days, and only 5% of the Republican said they would’ve changed their vote based off what happened last Wednesday. Still the majority of Republicans think the election was rigged.

I can’t help but think that these Republican senators will focus on these type polls. The most puzzling thing to me is how many people think the election was rigged. A recently resigned cabinet member(can’t remember her name now, but I can try to find a link later to her interview) stated after she resigned that trumps internal polls happened the way they thought except for Georgia. This is proof positive that Trump probably wasn’t overly surprised at the results of the election. Of course if he had won Georgia he still would’ve lost by a sizable margin.

I will never understand why many smart people cannot see through trumps BS. I just don’t get it.

Will 17 Republican senators vote for impeachment?