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<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Democrats Want to Show They Can Do More Than Impeachment&nbsp;&nbsp;

“In impeaching Trump, House Democrats are posing a question whose answer they do not want to hear,” one writer argues. Plus: What is Tucker Carlson thinking?

It’s Monday, December 16. In today’s newsletter: Should swing-state Democrats worry about how voters will react next year to how they handled impeachment this year? Plus: deconstructing Tucker Carlson.

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Even though the official House vote on impeachment isn’t until Wednesday, most people have braced for an unsurprising result: Donald Trump seems headed for the distinction of being the third president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House.

Both and said they never wanted to find themselves leading a

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