Impeachment hearings don't move needle with Senate GOP
By Alexander Bolton - 11/17/19 05:32 PM EST
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is up for reelection next year in what is increasingly becoming a battleground state, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a moderate swing vote in the upper chamber, for example, say their constituents aren’t even closely following the impeachment proceedings.
Although it is becoming increasingly clear that President Trump attempted to use military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the bottom line for Republicans is that it doesn’t reach the threshold to remove President Trump from office.
“I just don’t think that a lot of my constituents are paying that much attention to it because they’ve got lives to lead and other important things to do,†Cornyn said.
“I think Washington being a hotbed of politics everybody here is obsessed with it but I don’t think the rest of the country is obsessed with it,†he added.
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