Senate impeachment trial could keep 2020 candidates in Washington during lead-up to Iowa
Senate Republicans are beginning to strategize about how they might use an impeachment trial to reshape the narrative in the president’s favor.
“Once it comes over here, it’s in our lap,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer . “We talk about those things and kind of snicker about it, I suppose: the possibility of it playing out that way, where we’re literally in the middle of voting [in the presidential race and] senators would be stranded here for six days a week.”
Clinton’s trial lasted five weeks — a length of time that GOP senators speculate is all but unfathomable in today’s political and news environment.impeachment is not a central concern of Democratic primary voters Current rules and precedents are already not very conducive to a campaign schedule. They require the chamber to conduct the trial six days a week and begin at 1 p.m. each day. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated Tuesday that he wants those rules to remain in place. That leaves little time to hop on a flight to Iowa.
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