Will impeachment play in November?

Indeed, three of the president’s top opponents — Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar — all voted to remove him from office, but it has often been noted that neither they nor any of the other Democratic candidates make a big deal of impeachment on the campaign trail.

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Yes, Democrats wanted Trump removed from office; Democratic support for conviction was sky-high, but voters knew that was not a realistic possibility, so they have consistently placed healthcare, climate change, gun control, and inequality at the top of their list of concerns.

That can make it look like Democrats are trying to forget impeachment in this election year. Indeed, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fresh from pushing impeachment through the House on a partisan vote, recently tweeted that the “three most important issues to America’s working families” are: “1) Health care. 2) Health care. 3) Health care.”

But don’t look for the president and Republicans to allow Pelosi to slip away from impeachment.

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