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| President Donald Trump and Republican Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. © AFP=News1 |
CNN reported on the 13th (local time) that the impeachment bill for US President Donald Trump was passed in the House of Representatives, drawing attention to the intention of the Republican Senate Representative Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican Congress.
CNN believes that the McConnell representative could push for Trump’s impeachment. If so, he pointed out that this is part of the’Erase Trump’.
On that day, a bill of impeachment was passed in the Federal House of Representatives, and the ball passed to the Federal Senate. The conviction requires 67 votes, two-thirds of 100 members of the Senate.
Currently, the distribution of seats is 50-50. Therefore, at least 17 Republican legislators are required to vote in favor of all Democrats.
In the Senate, Congressman McConnell is the leading leader of the Republican Party, so if he agrees to impeachment, it is expected that he will be able to gather Republican lawmakers and get enough 17 votes.
For this reason, the New York Times (NYT) predicted that up to 20 Republican senators could approve of impeachment. He added that the Republican leadership’s assistants testified of this.
However, the representative of the McConal Park is showing a tumultuous movement. He said in an e-mail sent to his fellow lawmakers on the 13th, “We are not excluding approval for impeachment,” but rejected the impeachment trial before Biden-elect took office.
He has been on the side of President Trump all the while. Experts are conspiring that just saying that he is “not excluding impeachment” is a change in the war.
CNN reported that there is a clear atmosphere of “erasing Trump” within the Republican Party, given that 10 lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted in rebellion in favor of Trump’s impeachment.
Also, due to the recent intrusion of parliament, companies are reducing political funds to the Republican Party, which is also a big bad news for the Republican Party. Trump’s impeachment is essential to reverse this.
However, the backlash from Trump’s supporters cannot be ignored. President Trump still maintains a concrete support. After retiring, he created a new social media network, proclaiming himself as a’political martyr’, and is likely to gather support.
In particular, some analyzes say that President Trump can retaliate against the Republicans who did not help him in the impeachment phase.