new england republican party or new york republican party, which is almost non-existent now. most of the democrats, they understand, these are tough votes. they need their base to win. they need their base to win. can they get independents, republicans? that s a big open question. had they voted no, they wouldn t get the democrats. dana is on the hill. what s what s impressive for the democrats, almost completely agreeing to support this first article of impeachment. what s impressive for the republicans, complete agreement to oppose this first article of impeachment. that s right. i want to mention that you were mentioning nancy pelosi. she is in the chair. my understanding is that there s one vote, if you look on the screen, voting present that that was speaker pelosi. it s actually tradition for speakers excuse me, it was tulsi gabbard. that makes more sense. let me talk about tulsi gabbard for one second. we have been waiting to find out
there vote against these articles of impeachment, but it doesn t look, at least, like right now that any of the republicans are going to support these articles. it doesn t. and at the beginning of this process, it was a big open question about whether or not some would, particularly, the about 20 or so republicans in the house who are retiring and have nothing to lose politically, some of them are young and they want a future in politics, so they do potential have something to lose. but the key is to remember since we re talking about history, it was largely along party lines the last time this happened in the house, but there was crossover on both sides. some democrats voted against their fellow democrat in the white house or to impeach him. you re referring to bill clinton. bill clinton. and so that is going to be a, probably a different dynamic now than it was before. and it does speak to a lot of quotes that we have seen from
their testimony, i know people are going to say that ukraine was aware that this aid was a problem before and after that call. right. they weren t as acutely aware, but they started coming to our diplomats and saying, what do we do? we don t want to do this. we don t want to do this. the proof is what did they do after they got the aid? they didn t put out any announcement. why? they never wanted to do it. why not? because it was an attempted bribe, not an accommodation. and there s more to come. and i m going to but it doesn t mean it s worthy of removal. that s still a big open question. listen, that s not for us to decide. that s what people don t understand. but, listen, stevie wonder can see what happened with all of this. you can read the transcripts. you see what happened with that. no, seriously. it s so obvious what the president was asking for. it s all there in black and white, and the argument that he wasn t trying to do it, i think, is simply ridiculous. i thin
returns set in? this is the balance that the democrats are trying to find, because on the one hand they want to build a case that is strong, they want to be able to put that case before the public. and that s going to be the next phase of this. now that the vote has been held, the house is off this week, but they will still be taking these depositions in private. but then the question is do we go to public hearings, do we start this televised ciscus and in the political environment does that transfix the nation the way you can imagine it might have a few decades ago? do we have the same kind of environment where people can really all gather around the tv in prime time and be, you know, transfixed by all of this? or has the president succeeded in framing this as another distraction and it will be a blip and people will sort of regard it as not that serious? so i think that s a big open question and so the democrats want to be able to put enough evidence before the public that it s con
are they going to stick with you in the long run or look for other options? that s always the challenge when you re relying on states that are later in the process is it s very difficult to game out how and why supporters stick with you. although, i think through the course of the last several months we ve seen that as the polls have fluctuated up and town that african-americans in south carolina and other states have stuck with the vice president. the question is will they if these numbers continue to be the same in the first three states. i think it s a big open question for their campaign. i think the problem with the biden campaign in iowa is similar to his problem in new hampshire and a lot of it has to do with the lack of money and the lack of energy within the campai campaign. could you talk about the role of m money as a functioning element of keeping these campaigns going ee early in the process. ic there s a misunderstanding about iowa because it s a cau s caucus, so much