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Lamar Alexander, Who Had Suggested He Might Vote for Witnesses, Just Caved to Trump

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma After two days of questions concluded in the Senate impeachment trial late Thursday night, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced that he would vote against having witnesses appear before the Senate in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. In the lead-up to Friday’s pivotal vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has urged…

Tom Steyer Takes Credit for Impeachment

Tom Steyer in Knoxville, IowaJack Kurtz/ZUMA With less than a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, four Democratic presidential contenders are stuck in the Senate chamber in Washington, DC, for Donald Trump’s trial. But there’s one candidate who’s free to traverse the Hawkeye State and brag about his role in impeachment. “Those eight-and-a-half million people pulled Washington,…