The final decision on whether to convict US President Donald Trump on his impeachment charge will come down to 100 Senators, 50 of them Republican – but just one man could seal his fate.
What Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell declares about his vote in the President’s upcoming Senate trial could be the difference between Mr Trump shrugging off being the first ever US president to be impeached twice, and him leaving office humiliated, unable to stand again and millions of dollars worse off.
“If he publicly says he will impeach, then the dam breaks,” a Democrat staffer told BuzzFeed News.
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On Wednesday, US time, Mr Trump was impeached on a single charge of “incitement of insurrection”, passed by a margin of 232-197 in the House of Representatives.
Every Democrat voted yes. Ten Republicans joined with them. That’s 10 more than the last impeachment vote, in February 2020, where every GOP member in the Reps stood…