I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
i spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. it s antisemitic in some cases and the platform. as the conservative supreme court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. we get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the midterm election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. as and as nbc noted democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. democratic presidents in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican
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explicit, as ronald reagan did in 1980. property taxes. property taxes, crime schools. schools. all the dog whistles. but what trump says is i m gonna go there and be explicit. i m gonna say it s okay. i ll have steve bannon normalizing it. i ll bring white supremacists into the white house. we ll have a good old big party. we ll just do it by being economic populists as opposed to actual extremists. but i think the big debate and not analysis, 2016, afterwards, was, it was 2016 a fluke? or a kind of hinge point? right? was it like, this is the rebellion of the sort of post industrial and the answer is it s both. the answer is both, but the degree to which it was a fluke has gotten stronger watching this style of politics fail in three successive elections, where you re like, oh, don t go around being a jerk. which is the most obvious political sense you could talk to someone, actually turns out to be good advice. yes. i guess kanye said i like hitler after the me
The start of the impeachment process has exposed the cracks that the assault on the Capitol has opened in the monolith of unconditional loyalty to Trump that the Republican Party had become.
A year after not a single Republican voted to impeach the president for the Ukrainian plot, this time the leadership of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives has given up on formally pressuring its congressmen to vote against it.
The lower house approved the impeachment on Wednesday afternoon , and 10 Republicans voted in favor. An unusual figure. It is the most bipartisan impeachment in history.
Support for the process is also detected by some Republican senators, who are expected to vote to convict the president when the upper house holds the impeachment trial. But no move is as significant as that of Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill, Majority Leader in the Senate until new Democratic control materializes.