What's next for the parties after an impeachment that everyone knows will end in acquittal?
That wasn’t exactly the feeling during President Trump’s impeachment last week. True, it will be remembered as only the third impeachment of a sitting American president, but the Republicans were able to paint it (rightly or wrongly) as a wholly political affair, without the slightest legal foundation.
And since everyone knows that the Senate will most likely acquit the president, the general atmosphere in Washington on that day was one of chaos and rancor but nothing more weighty.
Now, the question is: what next? How can each party benefit politically from the proceedings and what is each planning for the future? To find out, I spoke with Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDAC).
“Having been through the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, I believe that this will end up backfiring on the Democrats politically,” Brooks, executive director of the RJC, said. “There is virtually no chance that the president will be removed from office by the Senate. And so, I think the American people will see this as a transparent partisan attack by the Democrats against the president and [an attempt] to overturn the outcome of the 2016 election.”
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