


Which supports the overarching reality of this trial: There just aren’t many senators who are genuinely undecided. (A supermajority - 67 senators - would need to vote for Trump’s conviction, which seems very unlikely.) Tim Scott (R) predicted Wednesday tha t “probably five and maybe six” Republican senators would cross party lines and eventually vote to convict and remove Trump from office. … As an impartial juror, I’m going to vote for the side that did the good job.” … One side is doing a great job and the other side is doing a terrible job. “President Trump’s team, they were disorganized. “The House managers were focused, they were organized … they made a compelling argument,” explained Cassidy.
LINDSEY GRAHAM NOT GUILTY TRIAL
That what had been presented so far makes more Republican senators likely to vote with the former President in the final reckoning.Īll available evidence of the trial to this point disputes that contention.Īfter a test vote last month on the constitutionality of the trial garnered just five Republican votes, a similar vote on the trial’s first day drew six Republicans. He specifically says that the managers’ presentation is moving votes away from convicting Trump and toward acquitting him. Johnson, for example, is virtually certain to vote to acquit Trump - no matter how much he was affected by the impeachment managers’ presentations.īut that’s not what Graham is talking about in his tweet. Now there is obviously a difference between being disturbed by what happened at the Capitol on January 6 and being willing to vote to convict Trump for his role in inciting that melee. Ron Johnson, asked whether he was shaken by the footage of the riot shown Wednesday, responded: “Who wouldn’t be?” “The evidence that has been presented is pretty damning.” Wisconsin Sen.
