“I had never intended when I got into this presidential race that it would be about impeachment,” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said while campaigning in New Hampshire this week.
of being directly involved in the impeachment case, talks about impeachment at almost every opportunity. Sen. Kamala Harris of California is trying to leverage the issue to jump start her flagging campaign by brandishing her prosecutorial credentials.For most of the lesser-known candidates, however, the Trump scandal poses an existential threat by guaranteeing they get even less attention than before.
Biden has started wearing Trump’s obsession with his family’s Ukraine dealings like a badge of honor, saying it is a sign that Trump is worried about his strength as an adversary in 2020.“It is clear he will stop at nothing to hold on to power,” Biden said at a Las Vegas rally Friday. “After 70 straight polls have shown me beating him, it’s not surprising I have become the object of his attention.” A video pinned to the top of Biden’s Twitter spotlights the whole Ukraine mess.
“We’re not going to let you do this again to another patriot,” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker tweeted at Trump, making a reference to the Russian hacking of campaign emails that embroiled the 2016 race. Now that the attorney general is suspected of helping Trump pursue dirt on Biden, Harris is demanding he be brought back to testify.
“We didn’t think it was appropriate to fundraise off a national crisis,” said Chris Meagher, a spokesman for Buttigieg, who supports impeachment proceedings. “What we’re seeing in Washington from the other side of the aisle is the effect of putting politics above everything else. We can’t do that anymore. This is a time to put the country before politics.”
A Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted this week found voters nationwide evenly split on impeachment, even as 79% of Democrats support the idea.
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