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Chuck Schumer Pivots From Impeachment, Assails President Trump Over Social Security

Emily Zanotti
Chuck Schumer Pivots From Impeachment, Assails President Trump Over Social Security
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Democrats who, just days ago, were talking exclusively about President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, have now shifted to other subjects, perhaps sensing that Americans, growing weary of a visibly partisan process with a foregone conclusion, are tuning out of the trials, leaving it nearly impossible for Democrats to translate the issue into success at the ballot box.

Thursday morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took time out from his regularly scheduled remarks about the unfairness of holding a trial in a deeply divided Senate without being allowed to present evidence and witnesses that were not first assessed by the House committees in charge of compiling a case for the president’s impeachment, to assail President Trump for attacking, of all things, Social Security.

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