Pelosi's job is to guide her party toward its political advantages. Impeachment is not an advantage. It's a 48%-to-48% issue, writes John Ellis.
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference after the House passed Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2019. -The House Democratic leadership has wanted no part of impeachment since the "blue wave" swept them back into power in the 2018 midterm elections.
The Washington Post Magazine interview was the first of a number of attempts by Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership to shut down the impeachment "groundswell" on the left and in the media. Down the street, President Trump was doing everything he could to enrage the media and the Democratic Party's "progressive" wing and in so doing, escalate their demands for impeachment proceedings.
In the event, miscalculation left Trump with the ignominy of being only the third U.S. president in the nation's history to be impeached. There was no way to spin that away. It was an "own goal" of epic proportions. She could say: "I'm not sending these articles of impeachment over to the Senate. There's no point in doing so. The majority leader has made it clear that hein a 'fair trial.' There's no point in wasting everyone's time and taxpayer money to arrive at a decision that Republican senators have already made. Everyone, including each and every Republican member of the Senate, knows that President Trump did exactly what he stands accused of doing.
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