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Trump's Senate impeachment trial is over, again. But the 2020 election? Not yet.
Susan Page
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is over, again.
The 2020 election? Not so much.
November’s contest wasn’t close – Joe Biden won it by more than 7 million votes – but its aftermath and the candidate who lost continue to cast a shadow over American politics in general, and the Republican Party in particular.
Although a majority of the Senate voted to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection, one that led to last month’s deadly assault on the Capitol, the former president on Saturday avoided the two-thirds majority required for conviction by holding the support of a solid majority of Republican senators. Free to run for the White House again, he immediately cast the trial as just another partisan outrage and a rallying cry for his supporters.
Since Election Day, Trump has been defeated for reelection, presided over his party’s loss of the Senate, and gained the unwelcome historical distinction of facing the Constitution's most serious rebuke for a second time.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/15/trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-over-but-2020-election-effect-continues/6737079002/