'He's not completely settled': As impeachment moves forward, McConnell is mostly quiet by jonward11
When Antonin Scalia died in 2016, many politicians weren’t sure how to react to a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year.
McConnell does not want to take the lead on messaging or strategy at a time when President Trump and the White House do not have a clear plan, and because there are too many unknowns outstanding. Story continuesAs of today, Republicans are not breaking with the president. Yet neither are they defending him.
There are other Republican senators who have opposed Trump in the past too but have been more deferential of late, such as Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Mike Lee of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida. In several conversations with people who are close observers of McConnell, one thing that everyone repeated is that the Republican leader will do whatever is best for his members, and for the Republican majority.
That would set up a vote in the full House sometime in December. House Democratic leadership aides did not commit to that timeline, however. A Republican Senate leadership aide indicated in an email to reporters that McConnell would move quickly, forwarding a 1986 memo from the Senate parliamentarian, an appointed position that helps the legislative body interpret the rules, that said that “the rules and the precedents on impeachment argue for a rapid disposition of any impeachment trial in the United States Senate.”
There may be a critical mass of Republicans who want to see the Senate hold an impeachment trial, where they hear from witnesses, hear arguments from both sides and ask questions.
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