Donald Trump’s presidency has thrust the United States into plenty of unprecedented territory and it could again if the brash, testosterone-fueled campaign he is sculpting becomes the first featuring an impeached incumbent chief executive.
Political insiders from both parties, echoed by nonpartisan experts, said all summer that forecasting the 2020 presidential race was almost impossible for a raft of reasons. Then came Sept. 24.
That’s the day Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry over Trump’s request — which he and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney have both since admitted, then walked back in their own ways — that Ukraine’s new government investigate Democrats. Public polling showed voters quickly moved from mostly opposing Trump’s possible impeachment by the House and removal by the Senate to mostly being in support.
View the complete November 4 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.