Julian Castro says impeaching Trump is good politics by AndrewRomano
At Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro made the case that impeaching Donald Trump would be good politics as his party seeks to retake the White House in 2020 — and he may have even changed a rival’s mind on the issue.
“Conversely, if Mitch McConnell is the one that lets [Trump] off the hook, we're going to be able to say, ‘Well, sure they impeached him in the House — but his friend Mitch McConnell, ‘Moscow Mitch,’ let him off the hook,” Castro said. “We’ve got the August recess, then we are four months away from the Iowa caucuses,” Bennet pointed out. “I just want to make sure that whatever we do doesn’t end up with an acquittal by Mitch McConnell in the Senate — which it surely would. And then President Trump would be running saying he was acquitted by the United States Congress.”
The politics of pursuing impeachment are far from clear at this point, which is why it has created so much controversy and conflict among Democrats. In the wake of Mueller’s testimony before Congress last week, more than a dozen additional Democratic House members came out in support of beginning a formal impeachment investigation. That brings the total number of pro-impeachment House Democrats to 114, according to The Washington Post — nearly half of the 235-person Democratic caucus.
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