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Seeing Romney in the news reminded me of this story I read the other day:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/16/politics/senators-worry-white-house-and-gop-leaders/

The group isn't big enough to threaten Trump's presidency -- there would have to be at least 20 Republicans break with Trump to provide the 67 votes needed to actually remove him from office and no one is predicting that. But if enough peel off they could provide Democrats with the 51 votes needed for key wins, such as to compel witnesses, demand documents and push through other procedural motions Democrats may seek during a trial.

McConnell is working to avoid surprises like that, but short of a reaching a broad agreement in negotiations with Schumer outlining the rules of a trial, he has said the twists and turns of a trial could be decided by 51 votes. Republicans hold a 53-47 seat majority, meaning just four Republicans voting with Democrats could have a major impact.

tl;dr

While peeling off the number of Republican senators to actually impeach Trump is all but impossible, there may be some hope in getting enough to actually force McConnell to do a trail. We would need four. So that could theoretically be attainable. Maybe. Possibly.

(But probably not)

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