Democrats are starting to pick up on Republican consternation over Pres. Trump's actions regarding Ukraine, in ways that could push the impeachment conversation forward, rickklein writes.
President Donald Trump says he isn't worried about impeachment. The movement on the House side is real, though there's nothing in the initial response to the latest conflagration that suggests he should sweat the Senate math.
Republican critics of Trump will get a new kind of visibility on Tuesday night. Two challengers for the GOP presidential nomination -- former Rep. Joe Walsh, and former Gov. Bill Weld -- will debate each other in a forum hosted by Business Insider that comes even as more states cancel primaries and caucuses to demonstrate loyalty to the president.
With deadlines set on Capitol Hill, the questions about transparency and accountability being posed to the White House this week could force Republicans to confront differences between what they might condone and what they're prepared to defend. Meanwhile in the Senate, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell pointed fingers back at Democrats and accused them of politicizing ongoing work from the intelligence committees.
Between the second debate in July and the third in September, hosted by ABC News and Univision, a 1% increase in the polling threshold cut the qualifying field in half. This time around, another modest 1% bump could cripple those who are only just clearing the bar.
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