Here's where the senators running in 2020's key races stand on Trump's impeachment
Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, questions William Barr, U.S. attorney general, not pictured, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.Tillis has argued Trump's conduct related to Ukraine and the Biden family does not warrant removing the president from office.
Another potential Tillis opponent, state Sen. Erica Smith, has said she supports the House's decision to start impeachment proceedings.Sabato's Crystal Ball: Toss-upPeters, running for reelection in a state Trump narrowly won in 2016, has taken a deliberate approach to the House investigation. In a statement last week, he said Trump's words and the whistleblower complaint "raise serious questions that require answers.
John James, an Army veteran and businessman who lost to Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow last year, will likely face Peters in 2020. James' campaign did not immediately respond to a request to comment on where the GOP candidate stands on impeachment.Sabato's Crystal Ball: Leans DSen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, talks with fairgoers as she works at the Pork Tent at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday August 17, 2019.
Ernst joined her Iowa colleague, GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, in supporting the whistleblower's right to anonymity. "There is absolutely nothing in this phone call that rises to the level of that ," he said last week, according to The Associated Press. Jon Ossoff, a Senate candidate who ran in a highly publicized House special election last year, also tweeted last week that Trump "should be impeached" if the allegations against him are true.
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