The nonstop diet of impeachment hearings conducted by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee is expected to go all the way to Thanksgiving.
But the question is, what will happen after that? According to U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks), an actual vote on articles of impeachment will probably come before Christmas.
During an appearance on Huntsville radio WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show” on Wednesday, Rogers explained how impeachment could play out as 2019 winds down, and 2020 begins.
“I think they’ll go ahead with a vote before Christmas and pass articles of impeachment, and then what I’m hearing is … there’s two theories about the Senate,” Rogers explained. “One is [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and the leadership have a procedural way of killing this thing. Again, it is not a complex issue. There is not a reason for it to go on a long time.”
Rogers said McConnell could do one of two things with impeachment, which is use procedural maneuvers to end it immediately. Or he could keep it going for months, which would hurt Democrat candidates in the U.S. Senate vying for their party’s presidential nomination. As of now, that includes Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
“There’s another school of thought that he may actually drag this thing out for about three months and keep senators running for the Democrat nomination tied up in Washington instead of the campaign trail,” he continued. “I don’t know which of those is true. In either event, they’re never going to have the votes to remove the president. Remember, you have to have every Democrat and at least 20 Republicans to vote to remove the president. Of course, the Democrats will do it. But you’ll never get 20 Republicans over this.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University, the editor of Breitbart TV and host of “The Jeff Poor Show” from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN in Huntsville.
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