Informal GOP Head Count Shows Faint Chance of Senate Convicting Trump on Impeachment

Informal GOP Head Count Shows Faint Chance of Senate Convicting Trump on Impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Wash., on April 9, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/Photo via AP
Mark Tapscott
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WASHINGTON—An Epoch Times survey of how the 53 Senate Republicans would likely vote today on a motion for an impeachment conviction of President Donald Trump shows virtually no prospect of gaining the required 67 ayes to remove the chief executive from office.

Democrats, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are moving rapidly to impeach Trump due to an alleged whistleblower’s complaint that the president threatened to withhold U.S. military aide to Ukraine if officials there didn’t investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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