Doyle McManus: Impeachment won't remove Trump. But it could beat him in 2020
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Dec 04, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Before she announced an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump in September, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi worried it might provoke a backlash from voters who thought Congress had better things to do.
That didn't happen. Instead, voters headed straight for their partisan corners: Democrats rallied behind impeachment, Republicans closed ranks behind Trump.
It's unlikely that Pelosi ever saw impeachment winning enough converts in the Republican-controlled Senate to make Trump the first U.S. president to be removed from office. The GOP appears, if
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