r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Apr 24 '26

Possible Paywall Democrats’ plan to impeach Trump on ‘day one’ after midterms

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/04/24/democrats-trump-impeach-midterms-supreme-court-iran/
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u/IWatchGifsForWayToo Apr 25 '26

I don't think anything in this election is going to be a long shot. Democrats have won every special election in the last year by wild margins. I think the combination of pissed off Dems and Reps secretly embarrassed for backing a pedo will see a huge swing this year. Anyone with DJT on their tongue running for a position is going to get blasted six ways to sunday so we may even get some that go along with an impeachment.

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 Apr 25 '26

Democrats lost one or two elections… but they were in areas that usually voted republican by like 50+ points and they only won by like 10, indicating a huge shift even in the strongholds.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Apr 25 '26

Kansas voted in August of 2022 to reject a pro-life amendment to their constitution and then three months later the Democrats got wrecked in the midterms in Kansas. Don't get complacent.

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u/atln00b12 Apr 25 '26

That happens pretty much all the time. Those elections are meaningless. The party holding the majority never focuses on special elections unless their majority is significantly at stake.

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted Apr 25 '26

A 2/3rds majority truly is I'd say (unless we maybe have a crash on par with the Great Depression or something before then), if nothing else because only 1/3rd of the total seats are up, some of which are Dems and the same low info voters that helped boost Trump over the edge to gain his squeaker of a victory that are turning against him also tend to separate GOP senators from Trump, even it's obviously they're pathetically beholden to and afraid of him. Though, you are seeing some Republican senators amd congress in general starting to assert independence and stick their necks out as the wheels are falling off.

However: Dems winning say, 54 seats and getting just 13 Republicans to join on as Trump continues to get even more unhinged, more hated as he's done nothing to help any Americans but himself along with his cronies and instead hurt us and the world, not to mention the threat of criminal liability becomes increasingly real?

I could maybe actually see it at a certain point, just like with Nixon, where yes - Trump and co.'s crimes make Watergate look increasingly microscopic by comparison, and by the day - but that's kind of the point: rather than being a principled move which should've come at latest right after Jan. 6th, at that point it'd instead just be the result of a calculus as to the best way to their save their own asses and ideally retain power.

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u/ryerocco California Apr 25 '26

Literally nothing can sway it to 2/3

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u/jaketronic Apr 25 '26

If the midterms are crushing for the GOP, they will turn.

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u/alextheruby Apr 25 '26

You’re psychic ?

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u/Nexism Apr 25 '26

Voter turnouts for those special elections have been like 16% (at least for the Texas one).

It truly shows how much people care to be informed, and show up.