So why did Mitch McConnell change his mind so dramatically?
There are three main reasons.
First of all, it became clear that there wouldn’t be a way to get to 67 votes. As I warned yesterday, that would probably be enough to force McConnell and his allies to back down.
Voting to convict Trump without succeeding would be political suicide for McConnell and his allies and they know it.
Secondly, Trump was threatening to start his own political party if he was convicted.
The “Patriot Party” would have split the votes of conservatives in every state, and it would have made it absolutely impossible for Republicans to take back control of the House or the Senate in 2022.
In fact, splitting conservatives between the Republican Party and the Patriot Party would have ensured one party rule in Washington for the foreseeable future.
As much as McConnell would like to get rid of Trump permanently, regaining the majority in the Senate is much more important to him.
Thirdly, other Republicans in the Senate were threatening to boot McConnell from his position as minority leader if he voted to convict Trump…
“No, no, no,” Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and Trump ally, told CNN when asked if he could support McConnell if he voted to convict Trump, calling such a vote a “dangerous precedent” and adding: “I don’t even think we should be having a trial.”
“If you’re wanting to erase Donald Trump from the party, you’re going to get erased,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News Wednesday. “This idea of moving forward without Donald Trump in the Republican Party is a disaster for the Republican Party.”
McConnell is a political survivor, and he could see the writing on the wall.
So he backed off.
But if he could figure out a way to get rid of Trump without any consequences, he would pull the trigger in a nanosecond.
Unfortunately for McConnell, now that everyone knows what he tried to do, he has been greatly weakened politically.
He may survive for a while, but the days remaining in his political career are definitely numbered.
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