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Pelosi’s Pragmatism on Impeachment May Backfire
If House Democrats fail to impeach Trump, won’t it weaken their party's 2020 case that he is unfit for office?
“I pray for the president,” she said this week.
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Pragmatism can lead politicians to say the most peculiar things.
Take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who knows that most Democratic voters want President Donald Trump to be impeached but that the electorate as a whole does not. This combination of political facts has led her to make baffling comments.