The day the impeachment trial began, data made clear how it was likely to end

… The Trump impeachment comes at a moment when views of the president by party and congressional partisanship have never been further apart. To be removed from office (convicted on the charges of impeachment), Trump would need to see some 20 Republican senators vote against him. With Republican voters strongly supportive of Trump and a deep divide between the parties in the Senate — the widest ideological gap in the Senate on record — that’s almost certainly not going to happen. CONT.

Philip Bump, Washington Post