Your doctor/lawyer wife no doubt knows more about the intricacies of this legal case. But even to a casual like myself, it seems that the legal waters are waaaaaaay to murky for something like this to work. Too much untried theoretical interpretations of the law from my vantage point, for them to actually get a conviction, or the clock not too run out before the election takes place. Not to mention that the Supreme Court will no doubt run just enough interference for Trump to evade a conviction if it ever got that far.
Of course, this all doesn’t happen if they would have got a 2/3’s vote in the Senate.
Strategy-wise, I think the Democrats and Republicans know this, and are just using it for fund-raising. No doubt the January 6th insurrection will be heavily used in campaign ads against Trump. I’ll just be curious to see how well that plays to the masses. Being that people’s attention spans are getting shorter by the day, I’m not positive that the center(ish) and undecided voters are going to be willing to put January 6th ahead of their pocket books. I know the general theme of this thread has a hard time grasping that (I don’t mean this in a bad way at all), but as far as I can tell, January 6th, unless the person is really into politics, is old news. Inflation, rising energy costs (which heavily influences inflation), and affordable housing on both the rental and purchasing market seem to be what normal people are most concerned about.
^ but of course a lot of that can change if the a Democrats are good with their messaging and don’t over-play it. I think the majority of their messaging needs to focus around the economy, as people tend to vote with their wallets when inflation is making a noticeable impact on their livelihoods, standard of living, and bank accounts
What I’ll be curious to see, is what the Democrat ticket will look like. Kamala has very diplomatically marked her territory. She has ZERO plan on going anywhere
