Democratic Senate Whip Says He Won’t Recommend Colleagues Vote to Convict Trump

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks in Washington on Oct. 15, 2020. Susan Walsh/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat said Jan. 17 that he won’t tell colleagues to vote to convict President Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of insurrection.

“We haven’t whipped it,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “We will, of course, try to find out how members feel. But in terms of arm-twisting, when it comes to impeachment, you don’t do that.”