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What We Learned from the House Impeachment Vote (Analysis)

2021-01-14T18:37:42.640Z


I watched the entire debate, reviewed the impeachment vote, and offered some initial ideas below. Analysis.


Why can you impeach a US president?

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(CNN) -

On Wednesday afternoon, to absolutely no one's surprise, the Democratic-controlled House voted to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in inciting a riot that led to the invasion of the United States Capitol. just seven days ago.

I watched the entire debate, reviewed the vote, and offered some initial ideas below.

* The 10:

In the end, 10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump.

They are: Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyoming), Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Washington), Rep. John Katko (New York), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Illinois), Rep. Fred Upton (Michigan), Rep. Dan Newhouse ( Washington), Rep. Peter Meijer (Michigan), Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Rep. Tom Rice (South Carolina) and Rep. David Valadao (California).

There is no obvious direct line to these "yes" votes.

Meijer is in his first term and González in the second.

But Upton is in his seventeenth term.

Kinzinger and Cheney have been outspoken critics of Trump.

Rice and Katko have said little publicly about their thoughts on Trump.

And while Herrera Beutler and Valadao sit in competitive districts in a general election, Cheney and Newhouse represent comfortably Republican areas.

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* Trump's Tactic to Limit Defections:

Even as the House debated the impeachment issue, and after several Republican House members announced their plans to vote for impeachment, Trump issued a statement, via Fox News, which urged "NO violence, NO law breaking and NO vandalism of any kind."

It was a statement that elected Republicans had urged Trump to make for days, and it was (finally) made to stop the bleeding of the president and his party in the impeachment vote.

It worked?

It's hard to know for sure, but the relatively low number of Republicans who voted for impeachment (some had suggested the number could go as high as 20) suggests that it could have.

* Huge Liz Cheney:

The Wyoming Republican congresswoman did not speak on the House floor during the impeachment debate, but her statement Tuesday night announcing that she would support Trump's impeachment was cited time and again by the Democratic speakers as he tried to appeal to the conscience of his Republican colleagues.

Meanwhile, several Republican members, most notably Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who led the Republican party during the impeachment debate, lobbied for Cheney to be removed from his leadership position because of his stance on impeachment.

"I think she is totally wrong," Jordan said.

* The Republican Turnaround:

Just a week after 138 House Republicans (including the top two House Republican Party leaders) voted to object to the Electoral College results in Pennsylvania, despite no evidence fraud, the main argument against impeachment was put: what those same Republicans said was that there is no reason to impeach him because Trump would leave office too soon.

How?

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* The temperature has NOT been lowered:

For those wondering if the Capitol siege might have calmed some of the partisan fires, they got their answer Wednesday afternoon.

And it was a resounding "no."

Recently elected Missouri Representative Cori Bush (D) called Trump the "chief white supremacist."

Speaker after speaker from Republicans criticized Democrats for alleged double standards, citing comments made by Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (California) that urged her supporters to "reject" Trump administration officials if they saw them in public.

Source: cnnespanol

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