With the impeachment vote imminent and her eyes on 2020, Nancy Pelosi “definitely has control of everything”—but her chess mastery has come at progressives' expense
devolved into partisan spectacle. The scene began on Wednesday night and stretched into Thursday as Democrats, eager to shuttle the impeachment inquiry over to the Senate, pushed ahead with a committee vote on two articles of impeachment—one charging Trump with abuse of power, and the other with obstruction of Congress. Republican obsequiousness, Democratic exclamations of a constitutional crisis, and political feuding along party lines defined the House Judiciary Committee hearing.
The two articles of impeachment are expected to pass overwhelmingly in the Democrat-controlled chamber when they hit the floor for a vote, likely next week. According to multiple congressional sources, anywhere between two and a half-dozen Democrats or so could break with the party line and vote against the articles. But the number will fall far short of the dozens needed to tank impeachment. “Nancy is extraordinarily good at counting votes,” a senior Democratic congressional aide told me.
By striking a trade deal with Trump—in which Democrats argued they secured wins on labor and environmental protections and concessions from Big Pharma—they also rob him of a favored critique. “There’s anxiety with Midwestern members that we can’t get outflanked on trade again,” the senior Democratic congressional aide who praised Pelosi’s vote-counting ability told me. “The thinking is you take away one of his biggest talking points in those communities.
Even the narrow scope of the articles of impeachment was, in part, tailored to Democrats who face the toughest reelection odds in 2020. Ahead of Tuesday, there was discussion within the caucus over what the articles would entail.
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