The worries about an all-consuming, long impeachment process came from a perhaps unlikely source Monday night: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “If, for the next year, year and a half, going right into the heart of the election, all that the Congress is talking about is impeaching Trump and Trump, Trump, Trump, and Mueller, Mueller, Mueller, and we’re not talking about health care, we’re not talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage,” Sanders said, before concluding: “What I worry about is that works to Trump’s advantage.”Also Monday, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) Perhaps Democrats would want to gather more evidence before their impeachment vote, given the GOP controls the Senate, for instance. A big reason the Clinton impeachment hurt the GOP was that the process began during the stretch run of the campaign. And remember: Twenty-one months after Clinton’s impeachment trial concluded, his vice president lost the presidency for his party.

Source: Washington Post April 23, 2019 20:36 UTC