Given Donald Trump’s ability to dominate the news both before and during his presidency, it is perhaps not surprising that he remains the subject of the most immediately pressing political question in Washington: Should Senate Republicans use the pending impeachment trial in the Senate to forbid the outgoing president from holding public office again? …
The decision may largely be up to one man: the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The conventional wisdom, which strikes us as sensible, is that if McConnell backs impeachment, he will be able to find 16 other Republicans to come along with him. That, along with all 50 Senate Democrats, is what it would take to convict the president in the impeachment trial, opening the door to the vote banning Trump from holding public office. CONTINUED
Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball
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