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After speaking with two of President Trump’s Republican 2020 challengers (racist former Congressman Joe Walsh and former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford) on CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper went to one of Trump’s Democratic 2020 challengers, Senator Amy Klobuchar. His goal was to see if the Senator would commit to convicting Trump if the House voted to impeach the President.
Tapper kicked off the Sunday interview by telling Klobuchar that one of her Democratic Senate colleagues and 2020 rivals had already come out for Trump’s conviction. “I want to ask, your fellow Democratic senator and 2020 opponent Elizabeth Warren said on Friday that she had seen enough evidence to convict President Trump at an impeachment trial in the Senate,” Tapper noted before playing a soundbite of Warren.
Here’s that soundbite:
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: You've seen enough evidence to convict yourself?
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: So you would vote right now to removing a president?
WARREN: I think the evidence is clear. When Donald Trump released the transcript in which he solicited a foreign government to interfere in the 202o elections, he broke the law.
“Senator, would you vote to convict President Trump right now,” Tapper inquired.
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