Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidency
Democrats have regained control of the US Senate, routing Republicans nationwide with historic victories that will give them powerful new leverage over Donald Trump for the remainder of his presidency.
Democrats will soon have the ability to hold up not just Trump’s legislative agenda, but also any appointments he makes to his cabinet or the federal judiciary – including the supreme court, where conservatives have a 6-3 majority.
You need a ⅔ majority of the Senate to remove from office. Even if the Democrats come out with 59 Senators, you’d still need to convince 8 Republicans to value country over party, which seems unlikely.
As others have pointed out, they have enough to force a real trial in the Senate instead of a rubber-stamp. If, by the end of that, any Republican senators still feel politically capable of a blatantly corrupt vote to acquit, more power to 'em.