Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Why Utah’s Mike Lee Might Actually Vote to Remove Trump

A Senate impeachment trial will present hard choices for a Republican lawmaker who deplores presidential overreach.

January 9, 2020 at 12:32 PM UTC

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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I had a Twitter discussion awhile ago in which I argued that Utah Senator Mike Lee was one of the three or four most likely Republicans to vote to convict and remove President Donald Trump after a Senate impeachment trial. After Wednesday, I’m even more convinced of it.