President Trump's hold on grassroots conservative voters make it electoral suicide for members of the Senate's Republican majority to convict him. Here's what will happen next | Analysis by stcollinson
This analysis was excerpted from the January 27 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Sign up here to receive it every weekday morning.Trump vindicatedDespite having been impeached, the President will use his acquittal as a victory to supercharge supporters and boost his reelection race. To voters who see him as an outsider hero, he will have trounced the establishment forces that tried to topple him.
A Constitution changedTrump's defense could set a precedent that abuse of power isn't enough to impeach a president, without an actual crime. And the Oval Office will emerge more powerful because his acquittal will enshrine the principle that a commander-in-chief can simply refuse Congress's demands for evidence, drastically weakening lawmakers' checks and balances role.
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