Chris Matthews: Shouldn’t Democrats be looking at impeaching Mike Pence too?
Allahpundit Posted at 11:21 am on October 3, 2019
Via Newsbusters, this is a fun gotcha to ask Senate Democrats because there’s an obvious answer to his question but it’s an answer Democrats can’t say out loud.
The answer is that no matter how dirty Pence’s hands turn out to be in this Ukraine mess, Democrats can’t make a move on him. Trump is already screaming about a “coup,†trying to turn Americans against the impeachment process; the rebuttal to that from the left is that if they were going to stage a coup, it sure as heck wouldn’t end with Mike Pence as president, which is what’ll happen if their impeachment effort succeeds. Start talking about *Pence* being impeached and removed too, though, and suddenly the “coup†argument becomes more tenable. Democrats are trying to get rid of both Republicans in order to make Nancy Pelosi president. Any small, tentative support Dems currently enjoy among moderate Republicans would go up in smoke if that perception took hold. And of course Senate Republicans would never, ever allow it. In some worst-case scenario where both Trump and Pence were impeached, they’d find a reason not to remove Pence in the name of maintaining Republican control of the White House.
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