![]() 'The Senate institutional loyalists are fomenting a counterrevolution,' a McConnell source said last night. ![]() The Senate's Republican leader McConnell is said to be angry with Trump and is keen to overthrow his dominance in the GOP. Today, House Democrats will start to make their case for impeaching Trump - their colossal majority will make it easy to vote through but it will the more hotly contested Senate. The House last night passed a resolution which urged Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to oust Trump - despite the vice president already writing to tell Pelosi he wouldn't.ĭebate over the resolution was intense after lawmakers returned the Capitol for the first time since the siege. Jamie Raskin (left), who penned the 25th Amendment resolution the House voted in favor of Tuesday night speaks with Rep Liz Cheney (right), who didn't vote in favor of the resolution but has said she supports the president's impeachment 'That was utter balderdash and he fed it into the veins of his supporters, and one could make a pretty good case that that's part of what got them into a fever that led to last week's events.' Rep. Hume said: 'All of that stuff he said for weeks on end after the election, that he won it in a landslide and that was all stolen from him, and that Mike Pence had the authority, which he most certainly did not, of reversing the results of the last minute last week. He also described how it was relatively straightforward to make the case for impeachment - certainly it is less complex than the attempt for the Ukraine phone call which was slapped down by the Senate last year. 'It would be pretty hard to revive his fortunes politically at this time,' Hume said. ![]() Hume appeared to agree - at least in the sense of the immediate effect of impeaching Trump - although he seemed less keen to admit the president wielded much power. 'If you want to make certain that a lot of your voters are reading off somebody else's script you'd impeach him wouldn't you?' Carlson said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled his support for impeachment, The New York Times reported Tuesday evening The Fox anchor also told his colleague that if Republicans impeached Trump they would drive a wedge between their voters. ![]() They think he's bad news politically.'Ĭarlson replied that he can 'certainly understand why they're mad at him,' but that he still couldn't see the point of impeaching him. 'So that's the reason Republicans are turning away from him. A lot of Republicans stayed home, offended by Trump. 'Both candidates were ahead and didn't quite get enough to avoid a runoff and then they lost in the runoff. 'They believe in their bones that he cost them the two special elections in the state of Georgia, which they manifestly should not have lost,' Hume said. President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Harlingen, Texas, TuesdayĪnd, Hume added, Trump's voters 'are furious with him.' The Fox News analyst replied that the Republican party didn't want 'radioactive' Trump to be 'hanging around' and possibly even running at the next general election in 2024. 'What's the point of this?' Carlson asked Hume. Another GOP heavyweight, Liz Cheney, the House's third-ranking Republican, is also going to convict, calling last week's deadly riot on Capitol Hill an 'insurrection.'
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