Salt Lake Tribune · Oct 28, 2019
E.J. Dionne: Trump’s madness is not enough to doom him
President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Washington • The impeachment war is not just about impeachment. It’s also about the 2020 election.
President Trump's strategy, if one can call it that, is thus not aimed primarily at avoiding impeachment in the House, which now seems inevitable, or even removal from office by the Senate, still a long shot. It is designed to let him survive this process with a chance of winning re-election.
This makes life complicated for Democrats organizing the inquiry and for those seeking their party's presidential nomination.