Politics
The Impeachment Trial Could Be Trump’s Christmas Gift to Biden
The Senate proceedings will tie up Democratic hopefuls including Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar.
Protesters in Washington on Dec. 18.
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Congress will ring in the new year as only it can: with stepped-up partisanship and bitter division, this time in the form of the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump.
With Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky running the show, the chance that Trump will be removed from office is all but nonexistent. Even so, the trial could turn out to be a meaningful factor in the presidential election—not because of its effect on Trump, but because of the wrench it throws into the Democratic primaries.