Will any US Democrat vote with the GOP to acquit Trump?

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Democrat senators who represent Trump-leaning states have to decide whether they will buck their party line

She criticised the House for building its case on a “rotted foundation” of partisanship and arbitrary deadlines, and she said she’d leave it to voters to decide Trump’s fate in the fall.

Now, just one Senate Democrat voting to acquit Trump would allow the president to go into his re-election campaign claiming bipartisan vindication in his trial as well. Because it would take a two-thirds majority of the Senate to remove him from office, his eventual acquittal was never seriously in doubt.

Collins already faces anger from Democrats for backing Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the US supreme court. She has also been criticised by Trump voters for her fairly frequent expressions of concern about the president’s conduct and key vote against repealing much of the Affordable Care Act .

It was this kind of Republican — troubled by Trump’s conduct, but not committed to voting against him — that was the object of Manchin’s suggestion Monday that the Senate could take up a censure resolution. He said he sees “no path to the 67 votes” required to impeach Trump, but he believes that “a bipartisan majority of this body would vote to censure Trump for his actions”.

 

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