White House Responds to House Vote on Impeachment
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We ran the numbers: There are 6835 news articles covering this topic. 32% (2213) are left leaning, 43% (2948) center, 24% (1674) right leaning.
On Thursday, the White House responded to the House’s vote to impeach Trump on Wednesday. While left-leaning articles highlight what the impeachment says about Trump’s presidency, right-leaning articles note that the impeachment will not pass the GOP-controlled Senate for the trial.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post reports that Trump’s impeachment represents five hallmarks of the Trump presidency: governing as perpetual warfare, governing by exhaustion, governing by grievance, governing by defiance, and governing with ‘alternative facts.’ The impeachment also demonstrated that Pelosi is Trump’s most powerful political adversary, and that most of the Democrats who opposed Pelosi became speaker at the start of the year now approve of her.
A centrist article by NPR reports that while the House was voting on articles of impeachment Wednesday night, President Trump was in Michigan at a campaign rally. During the rally he attacked Hillary Clinton and mocked presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. NPR also interviews former attorney general of Florida and special adviser to the president Pam Bondi, who stated that although the impeachment will leave a stain on President Trump, he will ultimately be remembered for bringing the economy to over $60.2 billion and raising wages.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate floor late on Thursday to declare that the Senate and House Democrats were at an “impasse” over whether the House would transmit articles of impeachment against President Trump to the GOP-controlled Senate. The article reports that earlier this month, Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman wrote an op-ed stating that if Democrats don’t forward the impeachment article to the Senate as stated by the Constitution. Then Trump was never even impeached at all.
From the left
The daily 202: impeachment day showcased five hallmarks of Trump’s governing style
Washington Post
From the right
McConnell: 'Impasse' over Trump impeachment trial, as Dems depart from precedent
Fox News