The day after the president was implicated by his former lawyer in a conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations, Democrats working on campaigns across the country huddled to decide how their strategy should shift ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Their answer was simple: it shouldn’t.
“We’ve been discussing a lot how this will play out,” said one national Democratic strategist. “You’re going to see pretty quickly that it’s not changing how folks are talking about impeachment.”
Among pundits, speculation about Democrats pushing for impeachment swirled after Michael Cohen’s plea deal Tuesday, which was coupled with bruising guilty verdicts for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, on charges of fraud. One Republican strategist told the New York Times that the impeachment issue could “define the midterms” going forward.
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