Though Speaker Pelosi is still withholding the House’s impeachment articles from McConnell’s Senate, Democrats’ hopes of swaying the GOP leader have dimmed
Democrats are finally acknowledging that their efforts to extract concessions from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are coming to an end.
“We need to get folks to testify and we need more information ... but nonetheless I’m ready,” Tester said. “I don’t know what leverage we have. It looks like the cake is already baked.” But some lawmakers said privately they are worried this sparring match with McConnell is no longer viable, worried about the political ramifications of dragging it out into the Democratic presidential primaries.
McConnell is going to pass a partisan impeachment trial blueprint based on former President Bill Clinton’s 1999 trial that defers the decisions on whether to hear new evidence until the trial has began, and as long as Pelosi delays McConnell’s made clear that he’s going to continue to confirm Trump’s nominees.“We’re getting there.”
McConnell has routinely mocked Pelosi’s delay and attempts to pressure him into cutting a deal with Democrats on witnesses and documents. On Wednesday, he read quotes from three members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on the floor asking for the trial to begin and said he was “glad Democratic Senators are losing patience with this.”
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