This Week in Impeachment: Why Can’t Republicans Agree on What Happened with Ukraine?

According to a durable truism of American politics, Republicans find it much easier than Democrats to unite around a single political message. Not all nuggets of conventional wisdom are reliably accurate, but this one has substantial truth behind it: the collective self-definition of the Republican Party as the agent of […] Read more »

Politics with Amy Walter: The Impeachment Will be Televised

This week marked a shift in the ongoing impeachment inquiry as the first round of televised testimony began on Wednesday. Marie Yovanovitch, the well-respected former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until May of this year became the third televised testimony on Friday. Yovanovitch believes she was removed from her post by […] Read more »

Nothing in the impeachment hearings will change anyone’s minds

Week one of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings is over. The evidence produced so far will do nothing to change Republican support for President Trump. … The hearings exist for the sole purpose of trying to do what previous hearings held by other committees had not been able to […] Read more »

Just How Far Will Republicans Go for Trump?

The House’s public impeachment hearings will test whether Donald Trump was right when he declared that his political support is so rock-solid that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequence—and what it means for a bitterly divided nation if he was. Even some Republican political professionals privately acknowledge […] Read more »

The Public Impeachment Hearings Begin

Wednesday marked the beginning of public hearings on whether President Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast will be reacting to the impeachment hearings as they happen and, in this installment, the crew considers new evidence of Trump’s pressure […] Read more »