The 2020 White House race is already looking like the 'the lock him up' election, with President Donald Trump's legal fate on the ballot | Analysis by stcollinson
Washington The 2020 White House race is already looking like the "the lock him up" election, with President Donald Trump's legal fate on the ballot.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California started the fire by saying any future Democratic Justice Department would have no choice but to prosecute Trump. Then one of her rivals, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, backed a criminal investigation into an ex-President Trump, taking the issue into litmus test territory for Democrats.Their comments mean that the nightmarish political legacy left by the 2016 election could stretch into the next presidency if Trump fails to win reelection.
Constituents react to Amash's call for impeachment 02:40Harris raised the question that could eventually hang over the first days of the next presidency in an NPR podcast."I believe that they would have no choice and that they should, yes. There has to be accountability," Harris said, when asked whether the Justice Department ought to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
Pelosi tells CNN: impeachment inquiry 'not off the table' 01:55In the short term, calls for an indictment of Trump could rally Democratic enthusiasm: It's notable that the party's presidential candidates have generally been keen to get on the record to call for impeachment.But there's also no doubt the President would pounce on the chance to brand the Democratic 2020 campaign as little more than an attempt at political persecution.
Trump's Nixon-like poll numbers on impeachment 03:03A new president would also have to decide whether the specter of a new commander in chief seeking legal retribution against a successor would further poison the political system itself.A Democratic president whose Justice Department went after a vanquished GOP predecessor might face similar accusations of using power to punish political enemies, as Trump and Attorney General William Barr are now facing.
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