01. Mitt Romney - Utah
02. Rob Portman - Ohio
03. Marco Rubio - Florida
04. Ben Sasse - Nebraska
05. Susan Collins - Maine
06. John Thune - Nebraska
07. Mike Lee - Utah
08. Pat Toomey - Pennsylvania
09. Joni Ernst - Iowa
10. Martha McSally - Arizona
11. Cory Gardner - Colorado
12. Josh Hawley - Missouri
13. Richard Burr - North Carolina
14. Marsha Blackburn - Tennessee
15. Deb Fischer - Nebraska
16. Tom Cotton - Arkansas
17. Dan Sullivan - Alaska
18. Todd Young - Indiana
19. Lisa Murkowski - Alaska
20. Shelly Moore Capito - West Virginia
21. Ron Johnson - Wisconsin
This is how I would rank the Republican Senators in terms of how likely they are to vote to remove Trump from office.
01. Susan Collins - Maine
02. Mitt Romney - Utah
03. Cory Gardner - Colorado
04. Lisa Murkowski - Alaska
05. Ben Sasse - Nebraska
06. Martha McSally - Arizona
07. Lamar Alexander - Tennessee
08. Pat Roberts - Kansas
09. Mike Enzi - Wyoming
10. Marco Rubio - Florida
11. Joni Ernst - Iowa
12. Rob Portman - Ohio
13. John Thune - Nebraska
14. Mike Lee - Utah
15. Pat Toomey - Pennsylvania
16. Josh Hawley - Missouri
17. Richard Burr - North Carolina
18. Marsha Blackburn - Tennessee
19. Deb Fischer - Nebraska
20. Tom Cotton - Arkansas
21. Dan Sullivan - Alaska
22. Todd Young - Indiana
23. Shelly Moore Capito - West Virginia
24. Ron Johnson - Wisconsin
This is how I would rank the Republican Senators in terms of how likely they are to vote to remove Trump from office.
As of right now, I think only about 11 of them have any significant or real chance of voting against Trump in the Senate.
I think the Democrats will be able to count on the following Republican Senators to do the right thing and vote to remove Trump:
01. Susan Collins - Maine
02. Mitt Romney - Utah
03. Cory Gardner - Colorado
04. Lisa Murkowski - Alaska
05. Ben Sasse - Nebraska
The following six have maybe a 50% chance of voting against Trump:
07. Lamar Alexander - Tennessee
08. Pat Roberts - Kansas
09. Mike Enzi - Wyoming
10. Marco Rubio - Florida
11. Joni Ernst - Iowa
The first five will be enough to extend the trial and call more witnesses in the Senate. They can also vote to remove Trump giving the Democrats a majority of the Senate, short of the 67, but still a powerful symbolic majority.
The current count in the Senate is 53 GOP and 47 Dems/Inds.
There may be a few adjustments to that count:
1. Does Mike Pence need to recuse from breaking 50-50 vote ties? What happens if he recuses and the vote is 50-50? (motion passes or fails??)
2. Would the 4 senators running for president also need to recuse: Bernie, Kamala, Cory, and Klobuchar???
That would make the count: 53 GOP to 43 dems/Indys
No GOP senator will break ranks or they will lose their job in the next GOP primary.
WOW, I didn't know that the Republican party had turned into the NAZI party. So much for freedom and independent thought.
There is NO need to break a 50 to 50 tie, because this is the SENATE where to remove the President, you need 67 votes.
I think the Democrats can get 4 Republicans to break with their party on this and give the Democrats a majority. It won't do anything to TRUMP, except that the symbolism of both houses voting to remove Trump with clear majorities will be damaging for his election prospects.
Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line. That's an oldie but still a goodie. No Republican senator will vote for removal, there are no impeachable offenses, no matter how much lipstick the dems try to put on it.
There will be many votes of senators besides on the articles of impeachment, votes on witnesses, votes on evidence, and such. If/when Roberts makes a ruling, it can be overturned by a simple majority vote of senators. Now I'm seeing that there will be no recusals, so I'm not sure where Mike Pence fits in, so I assume he still breaks 50-50 ties.
Not sure you heard, but the current vote count in the House is only 218 votes for impeachment. There are at least 15 "NO" votes from democrat House members. All Trump needs is 3 more defections and impeachment fails. Stay tuned.
There will never be 4 GOP defections in the Senate. Especially Sue Collins and Cory Gardner. They are up this year and probably would like to be part of the Trump wave in November. I'm predicting the largest voter turnout in history. Some democrats House members are abandoning their sinking ship already, they see that the 31 democrats who won in Trump districts are toast in 2020.
When the Founders put in the option for impeachment and removal of a President, it was for the abuse of power, treason and crimes Trump engaged in when it came to his actions in Ukraine. Donald Trump with held approved military aid to Ukraine in order to get Ukrainians to do his bidding, in digging up dirt on Joe Biden and announcing in public they were going to investigate Joe Biden. That violates Federal Election Campaign laws of the United States, because it is soliciting a foreign government or entity to interfere in a United States Democratic Election. The CIA whistleblower, ambassador Bill Taylor, Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman were A-political public servants who knew what was being done was WRONG, and abuse of power and a risk to national security.
It is a THREAT to the United States to have a president willing to put U.S. national security at risk for HIS own personal gain.
The Republicans in congress have bought into Russia conspiracy theory's created by Russia's FSB(formally the KGB). It is a Russian creation that Ukraine tried to interfere in the U.S. 2016 election in order to cover and deflect their own proven interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Sadly the Republican members of congress are doing precisely what PUTIN wants them to do.
Finally, if Donald Trump was really concerned about corruption in Ukraine, why are the only acts of alleged corruption that he wants to investigate involved Joe Biden and his son? Most people with just a little bit of common sense can see through that is lie that Trump actually cares about anything to do with Ukraine, except when it comes to helping his re-election campaign.
If no Republican in the House or the Senate vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump, then the PARTY OF REAGAN is completely dead. Reagan Republicans would NEVER let the Russians get away with these things as well as continuing to serve Russian interest.
