Breaking: Sen. Susan Collins -- seen as a swing vote in President Trump’s impeachment trial -- said Tuesday she supports acquittal, further reducing Democrats’ chances of obtaining a bipartisan guilty vote in the Senate.
Sen. Susan Collins — seen as a swing vote in President Trump’s impeachment trial — said Tuesday she supports acquittal, further reducing Democrats’ chances of obtaining a bipartisan guilty vote in the Senate.
She added that voters should have the final say. “We should entrust to the people the most fundamental decision of a democracy, mainly who should lead their country,” Collins said.Her announcement likely leaves Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah as the only remaining GOP senator who has publicly struggled over whether to convict Trump and not yet announced how he will vote. His staff did not return an email Tuesday.
For Democrats, even winning a single Republican vote for conviction would be celebrated as a victory. Likewise, the White House is eager to win over a Democrat.Senators began making their stances known this week in a series of 10-minute speeches that will continue through most of the day Wednesday up to the scheduled 4 p.m. Eastern vote.
Sen. Joe Manchin III , who stressed Monday evening that he still has not made up his mind, proposed censure as an alternative remedy to impeachment, but was largely shot down by Republicans who said it’s too late to pursue that route. Knowing all along that convincing the Senate to impeach Trump would be nearly impossible, lead House Manager Rep. Adam B. Schiff’s closing statement seemed tailored to convincing a single Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict.
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