Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly will not force a Senate vote on whether or not to dismiss the articles of impeachment ahead of the Senate trial, possibly to help “vulnerable” GOP senators facing tough re-election campaigns in 2020, but more likely because McConnell lacks the 51 votes necessary to dismiss the issue out of hand.
President Donald Trump expressed his desire to see McConnell hold a vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment before a Senate trial begins over the weekend, tweeting that, “Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, ‘no pressure’ Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!”
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