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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said it's time to move on from impeachment. His comments came during a news conference after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment. He also said he believed the impeachment fight was a 2020 Democratic election strategy to take back the Senate. The Kentucky senator added that he believed impeachment was a political mistake for Democrats.
One day after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment, the president held a "celebration" at the White House. He acknowledged and praised numerous House and Senate Republicans in attendance who were his most ardent defenders during the impeachment process. He also apologized to the state of Utah for Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict the president on the first article of impeachment: abuse of power. The vote was 52 to 48. On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters that she did the "courteous thing" by ripping up President Trump's state of the union address, arguing that it was necessary to call attention to lies in the speech. In response to a reporter's question about whether her actions undermined her constant message to rank-and-file Democrats to behave in a dignified way, she responded: "I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, on dignity." The speaker also addressed the president's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier in the day and the Senate votes to acquit the president on two articles of impeachment.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to reporters in Manchester, New Hampshire to update them on his campaign and in particular, the ongoing counts from Iowa's 2020 first-in-the-nation caucuses.
One day after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment, the president held a "celebration" at the White House. He acknowledged and praised numerous House and Senate Republicans in attendance who were his most ardent defenders during the impeachment process. He also apologized to the state of Utah for Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict the president on the first article of impeachment: abuse of power. The vote was 52 to 48. On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters that she did the "courteous thing" by ripping up President Trump's state of the union address, arguing that it was necessary to call attention to lies in the speech. In response to a reporter's question about whether her actions undermined her constant message to rank-and-file Democrats to behave in a dignified way, she responded: "I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, on dignity." The speaker also addressed the president's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier in the day and the Senate votes to acquit the president on two articles of impeachment.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to reporters in Manchester, New Hampshire to update them on his campaign and in particular, the ongoing counts from Iowa's 2020 first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said it's time to move on from impeachment. His comments came during a news conference after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment. He also said he believed the impeachment fight was a 2020 Democratic election strategy to take back the Senate. The Kentucky senator added that he believed impeachment was a political mistake for Democrats.
One day after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment, the president held a "celebration" at the White House. He acknowledged and praised numerous House and Senate Republicans in attendance who were his most ardent defenders during the impeachment process. He also apologized to the state of Utah for Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict the president on the first article of impeachment: abuse of power. The vote was 52 to 48. On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters that she did the "courteous thing" by ripping up President Trump's state of the union address, arguing that it was necessary to call attention to lies in the speech. In response to a reporter's question about whether her actions undermined her constant message to rank-and-file Democrats to behave in a dignified way, she responded: "I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, on dignity." The speaker also addressed the president's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier in the day and the Senate votes to acquit the president on two articles of impeachment.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke to an audience at an event hosted by the World Affairs Council in Manchester, New Hampshire. She outlined her foreign policy priorities if elected president which included re-joining the Paris Climate agreement and rebuilding relations with NATO partners. On the impeachment vote, she said Sen. Mitt Romney's decision to vote against the president was courageous. Following remarks, she took questions from the audience.
