Establishment Republicans who vowed to stop Trump's rise four years ago saved his presidency in the impeachment trial, the latest sign of his party dominance.
A decade ago, Donald Trump was a registered Democrat. When he joined the presidential race as a Republican in 2015, party leaders scorned him as a gatecrasher and sought to stop his rise.After a vote Friday that blocked new witnesses, the Republican-controlled Senate is all but certain to acquit him on Wednesday, formally ending the nation’s third and shortest presidential impeachment trial. That will let Trump remain in office and become the first impeached president to run for reelection.
“Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president from office,” Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday.was a turning point in the trial, conceded that Democrats had proved their case that Trump pressured Ukraine last summer to investigate a political rival by withholding $391 million in security aid.
At recent rallies, he claimed he “won” the House impeachment vote unanimously, citing the 196 Republicans who voted against articles of impeachment — without mentioning the 229 Democrats who voted in favor.
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