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Six GOP Senators Vote With Democrats to Continue Trump Impeachment Trial
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0:49Now PlayingRepublican senators offered thumbs-down reviews of the initial performance by Trump’s legal team -- and one even changed his vote on an early test of sentiment.
“Anyone who listened to President Trump’s legal team saw they were unfocused, they attempted to avoid the issue, and they talked about everything but the issue at hand,” said GOP Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. He voted that the Senate trial is constitutional after suggesting he’d join most Republicans on the other side of the question. He said House Democrats had much stronger arguments.
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who also voted that the trial is constitutional, was especially critical of the rambling performance of Bruce Castor, the first of two lawyers for the former president to speak.
“I thought that the House presented a pretty good legal analysis. In fairness, I was really stunned at the first attorney who presented for former President Trump,” she said. “I couldn’t figure out where he was going.”
Cassidy and Murkowski joined Democrats in voting that the impeachment trial is constitutional even though Trump is no longer in office, as did fellow Republican Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey and Ben Sasse.
But the 56-44 vote was hardly a sign of likely success for Democrats seeking to convict Trump at the trial’s conclusion: It was well short of the 67 votes that would be needed.
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