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babylonsister

(171,048 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 09:52 AM Jan 2020

How Democrats Won Day One of the Impeachment Trial

https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/22/how-democrats-won-day-one-of-the-impeachment-trial/

How Democrats Won Day One of the Impeachment Trial
January 22, 2020 at 6:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard


Playbook: “Substantively, Senate Republicans defeated every effort by Senate Democrats to alter the rules of the impeachment trial to allow for guaranteed access to witnesses and documents.”

“Politically, though, there is some upside for Democrats. If you accept the argument that President Trump is likely going to be acquitted, isn’t it better for Democrats to own no part of the trial, so they can call it a sham and beat Republicans over the head with it later this year? They will lose these procedural fights, complain loudly about it and wave the trial in the faces of vulnerable Republicans as an example of the party’s fealty to Trump.”
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How Democrats Won Day One of the Impeachment Trial (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2020 OP
The brought forth facts and evidence . . Iliyah Jan 2020 #1
And of course the rag Daily Mirror touted how Dems blew it and lost. CurtEastPoint Jan 2020 #2
Repuklican senators got a peek at campaign attack materials NCjack Jan 2020 #3
I was hoping that anyone would say UpInArms Jan 2020 #4

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
3. Repuklican senators got a peek at campaign attack materials
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM
Jan 2020

DEMs will hang around their necks for the rest of their political lives.

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
4. I was hoping that anyone would say
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 10:49 AM
Jan 2020

If these records/witnesses show that we are wrong, why don’t you want them to be allowed?

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