Republicans Warn That They're Sabotaging Themselves By Expunging Trump Impeachments

Republicans in Congress appear hellbent on expunging Donald Trump's two impeachments, and they are putting their entire political party at risk by doing so. Multiple Republican House members in swing districts have warned against the plan, and so have plenty of Republican operatives and analysts. They all say the same thing - expunging these records to protect Trump will lead to an electoral landslide against them next year. Farron Cousins explains what is likely to happen.

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You've got a bunch of far right Republican members of Congress right now that are pushing house speaker Kevin McCarthy to expunge the impeachment of Donald Trump. Both impeachments of Donald Trump, actually, they want them gone. They want them stricken from the congressional record. And Kevin McCarthy, in his ongoing efforts to constantly appease Donald Trump, appears more and more likely each day to be willing to go along with this idea to expunge Donald Trump's impeachment. Now, the problem Kevin McCarthy has is that you've gotten moderate Republicans from swing districts who are out there sounding the alarm bells, saying, if we get rid of these impeachments, we are all going to lose. And then we lose control of the house. Like this one simple thing is going to lead to an electoral landslide against us next year. You now have Republican operatives saying the same thing. You have Republican analysts, you have Republican pollsters.

Everybody aside from the far right members of the House of Representatives are screaming at Kevin McCarthy saying, this is the dumbest thing we could possibly do. But Kevin McCarthy doesn't seem to care. He gave up all of his power to that far right group in the House of Representatives in order to become speaker earlier this year. So his hands are pretty much tied at this point. And he is going to have to go along with whatever those lunatics and nut jobs want him to do, even if it means basically committing political, you know, uh, uh, self-destruction at this point. But a couple days ago, Republican, uh, uh, analyst named Scott Jennings appeared on C N n. And this is what Jennings had to say about this effort to expunge Donald Trump's impeachments. Here it is. You might get into a situation where it fails. I mean, what if he puts that on the floor and you don't expunge it? I talked to one house member, he's, and maybe the first one might get expunged. I'm not sure about the second one. The optics of this are all bad. And then you take on the political empirical data we have, which voters are thinking about Donald Trump and the things he did and what he represents. We lose elections just like we did in the midterms. All these people wanna look forward. These votes will be looking backwards going into a presidential cycle. That's not the disposition the party should take.