IMPEACHMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There will be no witnesses. The House managers and White House counsel have rested their cases. And President Donald Trump is going to be acquitted on Wednesday [2-5-20]. But there’s still drama left to the impeachment trial. Five senators are up in the air on whether to convict or acquit the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Those votes won’t affect whether Trump is removed from office, but they will recast the reputations of these senators for years to come and help shape the battle for the White House in November. For now, Republicans are feeling better about holding their members together to unanimously clear the president. On the Democratic side, there is less confidence everyone will stick together, with most in the party expecting at least one Democrat to defect.”
–Burgess Everett, “The 5 senators who might break with their party in Trump’s trial,” Politico, February 3, 2020 6:26 pm