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Nobody Talks About Impeachment on the Campaign Trail

It’s strange. But it’s not an accident.
Source: Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters

DES MOINES, Iowa—When I asked Cory Booker about the current crisis in America, he started talking about child poverty. We were standing in the parking lot outside a day-care center for low-income families here on Friday afternoon, and the senator from New Jersey had just finished a roundtable discussion that touched on ways to help young domestic-abuse survivors, parents staying at home with their children, and communities stricken by gun violence.

But what about the constitutional crisis that America seems to be wobbling toward over impeachment, I said, or the fact that it’s become normal among Washington, D.C., insiders to imagine Donald Trump refusing to leave the White House if he’s convicted by the Senate or loses next year’s election?

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