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[187] [better source needed] The following day, Senator Joni Ernst (Republican, Iowa) said she believed the trial would hurt Biden in the Iowa caucuses on February 3. A Biden spokesperson replied, "Senator Ernst just said the quiet part out loud: Republicans are terrified that Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee, defeat Donald Trump, and ...
On January 9, Pelosi said she would deliver the articles soon, but continued to cite a need for Republican transparency in the Senate; [156] that same day, McConnell informed members of his caucus that he expected the trial to begin the next week, [157] and Senator Josh Hawley announced that McConnell had signed on as a co-sponsor to his ...
It is incitement to insurrection. We could conduct a trial in a concise amount of time because the evidence that's needed is pretty direct." [78] In the run-up to the trial, a number of Republican senators opposed holding a trial. [79] [80] Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky continued to make false claims of election fraud.
Three criminal trials, one civil trial, and 50 primaries all within 11 months. How will Donald Trump manage a presidential campaign and his many legal trials in one year? Ariana Baio breaks it down
The trial, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argued, was “conducted by an openly pro-Biden Judge.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz quipped that Merchan “should have worn a Biden campaign hat while he sat on the ...
Former president running for White House while battling myriad indictments and legal cases
Many Republican senators challenged the validity of holding an impeachment trial for a president no longer in office; proponents cited the Senate's 1876 trial of William W. Belknap, the Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant, who was impeached, but not convicted, after resigning from office immediately before a House vote on his ...
In previous impeachment proceedings, only one senator had ever voted to convict a president of their own party. This time, seven Republican senators found Trump guilty, making it the most bipartisan impeachment trial. As Trump was no longer president, the president pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy presided over Trump's second trial. As ...