Trump Is Just 6 Votes Away From Impeachment

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"At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: "Mr. President, we don't have the votes," at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.

This scenario actually occurred forty-three years ago this summer when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked into the Oval Office and told Republican President Richard Nixon that they didn't have the votes in the Senate to save his presidency.

Following impeachment in the House, a trial takes place in the Senate. Conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate and by my count there are already twelve senators who have shown a willingness to take on the president when they believe he is in the wrong.

If you add that to the forty-eight Democrats in the Senate (who have shown no inclination to work with this President), Donald Trump could be six votes away from conviction in the Senate."

Opinion: Trump Is Just Six Senate Votes Away From Impeachment | Elaine C. Kamarck On 8/17/17 at 9:04 AM EDT

FYI This article is 2 years old. Some of the seats have changed since this was written. I have searched a bit and I am not finding what I am looking for.

I would like to identify potential Senate votes for conviction. Shall we take some wild guesses? Well, we could probably make some educated ones, anyway.

Let's devote this thread to learning about just where the loyalties lie for those 53 Republican Senators, shall we? Party or Country. Who might actually vote to convict, and who can we say no way never would vote to convict no matter what. Let's divide them up, stick em in columns.

I wonder how close we can come to guessing properly?

List of US Senators with links to info on each - wiki
 
OK, I'm figuring Lindsay Graham and Rick Scott would never convict.

No:
Lindsay Graham
Rick Scott

Possible Yes Vote to convict:
Yes:
Mitt Romney
Burr
Susan Collins
 
It's a work in progress.

Here's what I've got so far:

NO:
Graham
Scott

YES:
Romney
Burr
Collins
Lee
Cruz
Murkowski
McSally
 
PoliTalker said:
"At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: "Mr. President, we don't have the votes," at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.

This scenario actually occurred forty-three years ago this summer when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked into the Oval Office and told Republican President Richard Nixon that they didn't have the votes in the Senate to save his presidency.
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This isn't Watergate. :rolleyes:

Good lord, this moronic insanity by the Party of the Jackass has reached insanity proportions. WHAT CRIME????? :rolleyes:
 
PoliTalker said:
OK, I'm figuring Lindsay Graham and Rick Scott would never convict.

No:
Lindsay Graham
Rick Scott

Possible Yes Vote to convict:
Yes:
Mitt Romney
Burr
Susan Collins
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Lindsey was hating Trump before he won. He turned on a dime when he lucked into office. He would do it again if Trump was getting booted out. Trump knows he cannot trust a guy who spins so easily.
 
Hello Gonzomin,

Gonzomin said:
Lindsey was hating Trump before he won. He turned on a dime when he lucked into office. He would do it again if Trump was getting booted out. Trump knows he cannot trust a guy who spins so easily.
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Wow. You think Lindsey might convict? Well, he has flipped before. He did strongly oppose Trump during the campaign. OK, Let's take him out of the no column.

We need a maybe column, too.

So now we have:

NO:
Scott

YES:
Romney
Burr
Collins
Lee
Cruz
Murkowski
McSally

MAYBE:
Graham
Shelby
 
Trump doesn't care if the vote to impeach. The resultant trial in the Senate will expose the Deep State players, and then he wins.

I don't see a scenario where the 'rats win on this. They obviously never thought it through.

Maybe Trump set it all up for them to destroy themselves this way.
 
NO:
Scott
Braun
Grassley

YES:
Romney
Burr
Collins
Lee
Cruz
Murkowski
McSally
Gardner
Rubio
Young
Ernst

MAYBE:
Graham
Shelby
Crapo
 
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Truth Detector said:
This isn't Watergate. :rolleyes:

Good lord, this moronic insanity by the Party of the Jackass has reached insanity proportions. WHAT CRIME????? :rolleyes:
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Un fucking believable! We just went through 2 years of investigating this asshole for colluding with a foreign power to help himself get elected with no proof he didn't. Now he asks another foreign power if he would do him a favor and manufacture an investigation into the guy he may well be running against now. If that isn't colluding with a foreign power to help yourself win an election what the fuck is? But before he makes the call he holds up that 400 million in aid they need to fight the Russians? Just get in touch with my personal attorney? The whistleblower who is dead on accurate to the text of the call but he is a spy or traitor and should be dealt like we used to? We executed them. It is downright comical how the trump supporter can still sit there and speak as though this corrupt shithead has done nothing wrong.

Yeah I think some more republican senators are going to come around.
 
Port Tack said:
Un fucking believable! We just went through 2 years of investigating this asshole for colluding with a foreign power to help himself get elected with no proof he didn't.
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Yes, we have proof he didn't within the Mueller Report. Perhaps you should READ it? Here is the conclusion of the TWO year HOAX investigation so that you can be informed rather than look stupid:

Mueller Report; Page 173 V I: Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities.

Port Tack said:
Now he asks another foreign power if he would do him a favor and manufacture an investigation into the guy he may well be running against now.
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He never did this. Here is the entire transcript; please find the part you claim he said, OR, admit you are lying: https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?126740-The-Ukranian-NOTHING-BURGER

Port Tack said:
But before he makes the call he holds up that 400 million in aid they need to fight the Russians?
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This is a lie. Why do Trump hating low IQ leftists always lie about everything?

Port Tack said:
The whistleblower who is dead on accurate to the text of the call but he is a spy or traitor and should be dealt like we used to? We executed them.
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Trump never said that. Why are leftists such clueless liars? In addition, Trump's comments weren't directed at the lying ANONYMOUS FAKE WHISTLEBLOWER. If you had even the tiniest of brains, you could comprehend the OBVIOUS. ;)


Port Tack said:
It is downright comical how the trump supporter can still sit there and speak as though this corrupt shithead has done nothing wrong.
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Dumber still that lying leftist dumbasses like you, when asked, cannot come up with a single shred of credible proof that Trump is corrupt or criminal. But I can pile on the corrupt, criminal behavior of morons on the left.

Port Tack said:
Yeah I think some more republican senators are going to come around.
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I know you will be wrong. In fact, I have a bet thread that Trump WILL win re-election if you want to put your lame, lie filled rhetoric on display.

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...berals-are-strongly-encouraged-to-participate
 
I suspect that Sen. Blunt of Missouri may come around to the yes column as well. He is extremely conservative, yet Wikipedia's entry here jibes with my memory of him upholding traditional Republican stances.

"According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blunt "has one of the Senate's most conservative voting records, yet he generally avoids the confrontational, firebrand style" and during his tenure in the U.S. Senate "Blunt's most significant legislative accomplishments all had Democrat co-sponsors."[43] The Lugar Center and Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy's Bipartisan Index ranked Blunt the 11th most bipartisan senator in the first session of the 115th United States Congress.[44]"
 
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