Wednesday, February 27, 2019

What will Pelosi do?

Writing in The Hill, Bob Cusack and Ian Swanson believe Nancy Pelosi is unlikely to try to impeach President Trump, barring something explosive coming from the Mueller report.
...Starting impeachment proceedings seems unlikely to end in a Senate conviction given the two-thirds majority needed in a body Republicans control with a 53-47 majority.

That makes it a tricky political proposition, especially as Democrats eye a 2020 election they think could end the Trump era and leave Democrats in control of Congress and the White House. That scenario would leave Pelosi with the chance at scoring some sweeping policy achievements on health care and climate change in her last years in Washington.
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