'I heard someone say if there were a private vote there would be 30 Republican votes. That’s not true. There would be at least 35.'
Having heard “somewhere” — possibly from Mike Murphy, the veteran Republican strategist, interviewed earlier this week by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC — that one current senator had estimated 30 Republicans in that chamber would vote to convict Donald Trump if secret ballots were a feature of impeachment verdicts, former Sen. Jeff Flake raised this objection:
‘I heard someone say if there were a private vote there would be 30 Republican votes. That’s not true. There would be at least 35.’ Jeff Flake The Arizona Republican issued his estimate elevation — meaning 66%, as compared with 57% under the estimate relayed by Murphy, of the 53 members of his party in the current upper chamber would favor Trump’s removal from office — in the question-and-answer segment of an appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
An op-ed in Flake’s hometown newspaper suggested the former senator was effectively accusing Republicans in the Senate of cowardice, assuming he’s on the mark that many would vote differently in a private impeachment proceeding versus a public one, but stopped short of doing so because “that is not his style.”Tim Rostan Tim Rostan is a MarketWatch managing editor based in Chicago.
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