Can someone explain how the dems get to 2/3 vote for impeachment.
What am I missing? Aren’t they short like 50 something votes... and do we have 50 plus R’s that will cross over? That many?
Simple majority in the House to impeach
2/3 in the Senate to convict
Simple majority only in House to impeach.....Supermajority in the Senate to convict and remove from office.
I think the dems need just a simple majority for impeachment in the House.
In the Senate, a conviction needs two-thirds, or 67 senators to vote for a conviction. Twenty Republicans would have to vote for conviction.
Someone once posted and said the vote in the Senate required two-thirds of those PRESENT.....don’t know if that is true.
If the president is removed, all hell will break lose.
Impeachment and removal from office are two separate things.
The House impeaches, the Senate tries and removes.
Slick Willie was impeached by the House. Tried in the Senate & didn’t get the 2/3rds need for removal. (Note not a criminal trial!)
A Bill of Impeachment takes a simple majority in the House.
I knew this was coming the day after the 2018 midterms.
Senate trial with a 2/3s vote for removal I just don’t see happening for a number of reasons.
Rat goal on all of this is to draw an equivalency between Slick & Trump. They have their IPOTS, if they succeed the we will have ours!