REPUBLICANS WILL IMPEACH TRUMP IF THEY'RE 'WIPED OUT' IN MIDTERMS, GOP STRATEGIST SAYS

[Quixote1818]

Newsweek
BY GRACE GUARNIERI

If Republicans lose out "big league" in the 2018 midterm elections, they could turn on President Donald Trump and might even make moves to impeach him, GOP strategist and Senator Ted Cruz's former presidential campaign spokesperson said Thursday.

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If the House of Representatives and the Senate switch control from the GOP to the Democrats, Republicans in Congress would turn on Trump "to the point where they will impeach him, and they will get 67 percent of the vote in the Senate to impeach him, to do that. But it will require a wipeout," MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler predicted on Morning Joe Thursday.

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"When does the Republican Party turn? When they get wiped out. That's what happens. If they get wiped out in [2018], the Republicans will absolutely turn on Donald Trump," Tyler said.

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-impeach-trump-midterm-elections-770904

[samnsara]

1. well if they are wiped out then it will be the dems impeaching him...

[bearsfootball516]

6. Need 66 votes in the Senate, so they'd need a lot of help from Republicans

Even if Democrats take back the majority.

[global1]

10. Probably In The Interim Between The Election And....

when the Dems take office. I think there is a transition period.

As an afterthought - they probably will finally get bipartisan support on the impeachment.

[shraby]

2. If they get wiped out, the Dems will control the House and Senate and they will

decide what happens, not the republicans.

If they decide to impeach, which will probably happen, then I would guess the republicans will come up with the required number of votes in both houses to take the trump out.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Ummm... do they even think before they speak????

No one will care about Republicans after they get wiped out in the mid-terms

[LuvLoogie]

4. Pffft. They will use reconciliation to pass even more shit in the lame duck session.

[bearsfootball516]

5. Lol. I've heard this before.

"If he can't get Obamacare repealed, they'll move to impeach."

"After they get their tax cut, they're going to impeach him."

Uh huh.

[ProudLib72]

9. If he starts a nuclear war with NK

and all that's left of Earth afterward is a smoking crater, then they'll impeach him.

[Hoyt]

7. If polls are looking bad this summer, they might take some action then.

[Quixote1818]

8. Trump has put the GOP in a tough position and even worse if he fires Mueller

The base LOVES him but moderates and Dems HATE him. They can't win because either way they piss off a huge group of people. They would need right wing media to fall in line against Trump and Trump would then lash out at them.

[OnDoutside]

11. I think they're locked in now until November.

[oxbow]

12. Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot.

As much as they stick by his inanity now, they’ll turn once it’s their necks on the line. Let it be so!

[Cosmocat]

13. It's not going to happen

It will take a solid dem majority in the house to get articles, simply no way the 15 or so R senators will pull the trigger IF dems get the Senate. If they don't, there will never be a vote.

[Baconator]

14. Not a chance...

... they'll take their lumps and work behind the scenes to keep him from running in 2020.

Citing health or an even democrat plot to poison him or something...

They'll never split publicly...

[lpbk2713]

15. If the GOP wants to survive they will have to do something.

It won't be long before the vast majority realizes Trump is a criminal and a traitor.

[oberliner]

16. "Ted Cruz's former presidential campaign spokesperson"

Not the most reliable of sources.