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I don’t think they can hopscotch over Pence.

If you look at the history of impeachment attempts, this one will die a very rapid death, before even getting off the ground.

I bet tRump is already negotiating for his stepping down from office such as Nixon did with Ford

"They" don't get to select - anyone/everyone would have to be primaried; voters rule.

There are plenty of cabinet secretaries in the line of succession.

Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have captured a large number of Saudi troops after a major attack near the border between the two countries.

A Houthi spokesman told the BBC that three Saudi brigades had surrendered near the Saudi town of Najran.

He said thousands of soldiers had been captured and many others killed. Saudi officials have not confirmed the claim.

The operation was the largest of its kind since the conflict began, the spokesman said.

Colonel Yahiya Sarea said Saudi forces had suffered "huge losses in life and machinery".

All those captured would be paraded on the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV network on Sunday, he added.

Last Exit From Trumpland

Ask an intelligent Republican staffer what they imagine awaits their party after Donald Trump, and you’ll get an interesting disquisition on the factions and figures that might shape conservatism, the political and policy arguments to come.

Ask that same staffer what happens if Trump is re-elected, and you’ll get a heavy sigh, a thousand-yard stare and then a hopeful “Well, maybe we can just pretend he isn’t there …?”

This is the state of Republican politics with impeachment suddenly looming. People are ready for the after, the reckoning to come, the attempted restorations and Trumpisms-without-Trump, the great Nikki Haley-Tucker Carlson brawl.

But if Trump survives impeachment and somehow gets re-elected, there will be no after Trump, not yet and not for four long years. Instead Trump will bestride his party like a decaying colossus, and his administration’s accelerative deterioration will be the G.O.P.’s as well. There will be no second-term policymaking, no John Kelly to stabilize the ship — just a floating hulk drifting between the icebergs of recession and foreign crisis, with all American conservatism onboard.

Outside the ranks of the truest Trump believers, most Republicans anticipate very bad things in 2022 and 2024 if the Trump Show continues uninterrupted...

Trump’s Enablers: How Giuliani, Pence, and Barr Figure Into the Ukraine Scandal

Gotcha. As to Colin Powell, I'm not sure he's still registered as a Republican. I really doubt he'd now want to be associated with what that party has become.

He's freakin' 82 years old anyway.

You know, it may not be fair, but I think this new email investigation could hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances, should the Dems give her the nomination.
Wait...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/politics/email-probe-state-department-hillary-clinton/index.html