Does Pelosi Have a Plan for Impeachment?
The House speaker’s hesitation keeps the narrative in Democrats’ hands, but her strategy might not work out in her favor.
A delicate balance.
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I’m a lot more inclined to give Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats the benefit of the doubt than some, but it seems to me that the impeachment trains are running on three almost entirely unrelated tracks right now, and I’m not sure exactly how this plays out.
On one track, Democrats have pretty much allowed talk of impeachable offenses to fall out of the national media. Part of that is the August congressional recess. Part of it is that news about Democrats is increasingly going to be dominated by the presidential candidates, and it simply doesn’t make any sense to run for president on the platform that the current president should be impeached. But a large part of it seems to be that Pelosi and most House Democrats don’t find that it resonates as much as other topics.