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On impeachment, Democrats don’t understand their most important audience

By Becket Adams

Published December 5, 2019 10:04pm ET

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On impeachment, Democrats don’t understand their most important audience — Constitutional law scholar Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan apologizes for a remark she made about Barron Trump, President Donald Trump's son, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

What are Democratic lawmakers thinking?

Republicans are not going to vote to remove President Trump from office. The best-case scenario for Democrats is that this impeachment business motivates the general electorate to vote against the president in 2020. But for that to happen, Democrats need to speak to an audience beyond just politicos, journalists, and other obsessively-engaged resistance types who already agree that Trump needs to go.

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