President Donald Trump told voters to pretend he was on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections.

They did. And they resoundingly rejected both his policies and his Republican Party.

Democrats have captured full control of Congress, NBC News projects, with voters delivering a forceful repudiation of Trump’s agenda, coupled with a clear-cut message that Congress has not done enough to provide checks on his administration and needs to do more to address affordability and corruption.

  • TAG@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Yes, they can impeach (put Trump on trial) but they cannot remove him from office. They would need a supermajority of the Senate for that. Trump has already been impeached twice.

    The only threat the Democrats have is to make the impeachment trial a public affair and present evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing. They cannot force him to testify under oath due to the Fifth Amendment. It will not do much good since Trump is not allowed to run for reelection.

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      8 天前

      the republicans have been dealt a massive loss and trump is reacting by throwing them under the bus. They have a massive deficit of good will with the people. There is a small chance they might actually vote to remove him from office and let him know. this is what happened with nixon. They let him know and he resigned to avoid being the first ever president to be removed from office.

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        7 天前

        Much as I hate his guts, do we want President JD Vance? I’d rather have Trump in office continuing to harm the GOP politically while the House and Senate contain how much damage he can do.

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          7 天前

          If we can get the votes to remove him for crimes against the People, we should do so regardless of political expedience. If the office of the President is to ever have legitimacy again a criminal cannot be allowed to remain there if removal is an option.

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          I would risk vance after a republican thrashing that got trump removed from office honestly with a dem majority in both houses of congress.