Will any 2020 Dems come out in favor of Trump impeachment & removal from office?
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  Will any 2020 Dems come out in favor of Trump impeachment & removal from office?
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Mr. Morden
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« on: July 25, 2017, 07:58:51 PM »

As far as I know, no one currently mulling a 2020 bid for the Dem. nomination has gone as far as to say that they would vote in favor of convicting Trump of "high crimes and misdemeanors" today.  They all say that they want investigations, but none say that the case for removal has already been proven.

Which of the likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidates has a greater than 50% chance of (eventually) coming out in favor of removing Trump from office before the end of his current term?

I'm assuming there's no precedent for a president being challenged for a second term by a major party nominee who actually voted in the Senate to remove him from office before the end of his first term?  Yet that seems like a plausible scenario at the moment, since the Dems winning the House in 2018 could very easily lead to an impeachment vote and a Senate trial (in which Trump would presumably prevail, assuming few if any GOP defections).
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2017, 08:06:04 PM »

O'Malley seems the most likely to announce support for it, though he wouldn't actually be able to vote on said matter.
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2017, 08:51:00 PM »

I doubt any of them actually want to face Pence, who would possibly be a harder candidate to beat than a wounded Trump.
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2017, 09:45:21 PM »

I doubt any of them actually want to face Pence, who would possibly be a harder candidate to beat than a wounded Trump.

That has no bearing on their public position on the matter.  The Dems have no power to remove Trump from office on their own, since there's zero chance that they're going to get a 2/3rds supermajority in the Senate this decade.  It only happens if a large number of Republicans want to get rid of Trump.  So Warren or Booker or Gillibrand voting to convict Trump and remove him from office (should such a vote ever come up) is a free vote, since none of them are going to be the deciding vote in his removal from office.  So they'll vote based on what they think will get them the most votes for president, not based on whether they'd rather run against Trump or Pence in the general election.
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2017, 10:14:47 PM »

Not yet.
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