Impeachment Inquiry Likely to Move Towards Trial
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We ran the numbers: There are 3642 news articles covering this topic. 50% (1809) are left leaning, 41% (1484) center, 10% (349) right leaning.
President Trump’s impeachment inquiry moves toward a likely impeachment trial in the Senate. While left-leaning articles highlight growing support for the trial from Democratic lawmakers in moderate districts, right-leaning articles highlight that Democrats are delegitimizing the likely impeachment trial.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times reports that Democratic lawmakers who represent conservative-leaning districts announced on Monday that they would vote to impeach President Trump. Representative Joe Cunningham of South Carolina, who represents a district where Republicans have a 10-point advantage, said that Republicans offered no convincing evidence to exonerate Mr.Trump, while Representative Ben McAdams of Utah stated that he “cannot turn a blind eye, thereby condoning this president and future presidents, Republican or Democrat, to do the same.”
A centrist article by NPR highlights that President Trump wrote a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, blasting her and other Democrats for “an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power.” In the letter, Trump also justifies his concerns about Ukraine and the Bidens, referencing an NPR interview where Biden discussed his son’s involvement in a Ukrainian company.
A right-leaning article by The Daily Caller emphasizes that Congressional Democrats are already undermining the legitimacy of the likely impeachment trial, as the impeachment effort is likely to fall short in the Senate. The article reports that Democrats have accused Senate Republicans of running a rigged trial by refusing to call witnesses who have not appeared in the House Democrats’ hearings.