Donald Trump has built his political success around breaking with convention. For his next feat, he'll try to turn his impeachment into an election-year rallying cry.
As the first impeached U.S. president to seek re-election in more than 150 years, Trump's wagering that swing-state voters will see his rebuke at the hands of House Democrats not as a stain, but as the latest example of a first term pockmarked by what he calls partisan investigations.
As Mario Parker reports, recent national polls have shown weakening support for Trump's removal from office, and data and interviews suggest the picture is even brighter for the incumbent in battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The House adopted two articles of impeachment almost entirely along partisan lines yesterday, setting up a trial early next year in the Republican-led Senate, where Trump's all but certain to avoid conviction.
The president previewed how he'll frame his impeachment in the coming months, accusing Democrats of "deep hatred and disdain for the American voter" during a rally yesterday in Michigan.
"This lawless, partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democratic Party," he said.
Voters will show on Nov. 3 whether Trump's words were hyperbole or prophecy.
— Kathleen Hunter
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