radio. i attribute trump s recent run of good polls to the correct perception of him being the underdog in a legislative chamber controlled by democrats. as this moves to the senate, trump will no longer look like the underdog. professor, how does that dynamic shift for the president and the republicans as this moves to the upper chamber? well, when we saw the impeachment process in the house, it wasn t like the republicans had a lot of substantiative objections to what was going on. they objected to the process, they objected that it was rushed. they objected that as the minority, they were denied certain rights in terms of how the process went forward. and while there was a lot of exaggeration, there was at least a little bit of grain of truth to that. when we move to the senate, this is going to be mnl itch mcconnes show. and the degree to which mcconnell runs the impeachment trial or sets the rules for the impeachment trial, in such a way that it seems like the deck is