Doug Jones says impeachment must be above electoral politics [View all]

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Source: Politico

Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democratic lawmaker up for reelection in the Senate, on Sunday dismissed concerns that a vote to remove President Donald Trump from office would cost him his Senate seat.

“Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that,” the Alabama senator told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

“This has to do with the future of the presidency and how we want our presidents to conduct themselves. It has all to do with the future of the Senate and how the Senate should handle impeachment and articles of impeachment that come over. That’s how I’m looking at this,” he added. “If I did everything based on a pure political argument all you’d need is a computer to mash a button. That’s just not what this country is about. It’s not what the founders intended to do.”

Jones was asked if he might be one of the Democrats that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes will defect from the party in a vote to acquit the president. “I have no idea what Mitch McConnell’s talking about these days,” he said.

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