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Amid Rising Opposition To Impeachment, New Democrat Strategy Emerges: Withhold Impeachment Articles

John Bickley
Amid Rising Opposition To Impeachment, New Democrat Strategy Emerges: Withhold Impeachment Articles
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With reports of increasingly “nervous” Democrats amid rising opposition to impeachment, a growing number of Democrats and their supporters on the left have begun to seriously push a new strategy: vote on the two articles of impeachment against the president in the House but then refuse to send the articles to the Senate, where they’re destined to die a quick death.

In a piece for his website, The Bulwark Editor-in-Chief Charles Sykes spells out the strategy that more Democrats and their supporters are beginning to embrace: Accuse Republicans of intending to “violate their impeachment-trial oaths” and refuse to send over the articles so the Democrats can maintain some “leverage” over Republicans.

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