Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Is That the Sound of Trump’s Spell Over Republicans Breaking?

Before a whistle-blower’s Ukraine complaint, GOP congress members were content to repeat White House talking points. Now? Not quite.

September 26, 2019 at 7:57 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The fate of President Donald Trump rests with Republicans.3 So the hearing in the House of Representatives on Thursday about a whistle-blower’s allegation of impropriety involving Trump’s interaction with the president of Ukraine provided a good chance to see what GOP lawmakers are thinking.

The answer is: They’re all over the place. And that’s bad news for the White House.