.MaddowBlog: The broader significance of Gabbard’s ‘present’ vote on impeachment
Rep. Jose Serrano could not vote for health reasons. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is conservative. Rep. Jeff Van Drew will reportedly become a Republican later today. Rep. Jared Golden represents a Trump district and split his votes – supporting one article of impeachment, but not the other. In a surprise move, Rep.
Going into yesterday’s proceedings, Gabbard was not generally considered one of the House Dems whose vote was in doubt. In late September, for example, the long-shot presidential candidate said in a written statement, “If we allow the president to abuse his or her power, then our society will rot from top to bottom. We will turn into a banana republic, where people in positions of power – from the president all the way down to the traffic cop – will feel it’s O.K.
Her “present” votes came roughly a week after the Hawaii lawmaker, who was close to qualifying for tonight’s Democratic primary debate, announced that she wouldn’t participate, even if she met the necessary thresholds. It was against this backdrop that Gabbard argued in a written statement last night that she was “standing in the center” with her impeachment vote, adding that she was dissatisfied with “tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.”
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