Democratic Senators Grow Impatient with Pelosi on Impeachment
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Democratic senators are growing impatient over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s decision to withhold the articles of impeachment from the Senate. While left-leaning articles highlight majority leader Senator Mitch McConnell’s refusal to budge on impeachment trial terms, right-leaning articles highlight disagreements among Senate Democrats on Pelosi’s delay strategy.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that McConnell insisted that Pelosi accept his terms for President Trump’s impeachment trial, rebuffing her demands for him to make public his proposed rules for the proceeding. Many Senate Democrats, such as Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and Senator Diane Feinstein, said on Wednesday that they were losing patience with the delay as well.
The Hill published a centrist article reporting that a growing number of Senate Democrats think it doesn’t make much sense for Pelosi to continue holding on to the articles of impeachment, given the fact that McConnell has already announced he has enough votes to pass a resolution without new witnesses. Democratic lawmakers in the upper chamber say that Pelosi has already succeeded in achieving her goal of putting a spotlight on McConnell’s opposition to witness testimony.
Fox News published a right-leaning article highlighting that Pelosi’s impeachment delay opens cracks in the Democratic caucus as Senate Democrats begin to question whether Pelosi’s delay strategy undermines their argument that Trump’s conduct warrants serious and urgent attention. Other senators questioned what kind of leverage Pelosi has over the Senate, while several are still holding out hope that she can still extract concessions to allow witnesses and new evidence in a Senate trial.