The most important number from today's House impeachment vote | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Zero is the number of House Republicans who voted for the formal rules. Not a single one. Which is, plainly put, a win for President Donald Trump, who lobbied hard to keep his party in line on a much-watched vote, where even a a half-dozen GOP rebels could have fundamentally altered the storyline of the day on impeachment.Remember this: Republicans control 53 seats in the Senate. Even if the Democratic-led House impeaches Trump, he will not be removed until 67 senators vote to convict him.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! While the Senate doesn't take its cues from the lower chamber, all politicians are copycats. Or at minimum aware of how people around them are thinking and acting. So if, say, six to 10 House Republicans in swing districts voted for the formal impeachment inquiry, it would get GOP senators to start thinking more about whether they need to reassess where they are on impeachment.Any crack in Republican unity has the potential to spider. And turn into an actual fissure. And then a yawning gap.
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