Some Republicans who voted to acquit said the House did not meet the high burden of proof needed to convict.
Hancock exited the Capitol in a hurry, having changed from his suit into a white golf shirt.“It was my constitutional obligation to seek the truth based on the facts made available through witness testimony and all documents admitted into evidence, then vote accordingly,” Hancock said later in a statement. “My vote on each article reflects that responsibility, and none was taken lightly.”
Nichols did not respond to requests for comment and did not release a public statement about his votes as of Saturday afternoon., D-Dallas, described the roughly eight hours of deliberations as “intense,” noting that some senators switched into tennis shoes in preparation for a long process. He said many GOP senators were engaged in good-faith discussions about the evidence.
“But it makes me sad and exhausted because I feel like they didn't change anything,” Johnson said. “It didn’t change the outcome.”“Once it was real clear that we weren’t going to get 21 votes, I believe that some Republicans that wanted to support impeachment decided to vote against impeachment,” said state Sen.Alvarado said she felt the trial started off as impartial, but the tide started to turn away from possible impeachment in the last 24 to 48 hours.
“There were some sidebar conversations going on and I think at some point yesterday [I] started to realize that people were changing their mind,” she said. The Senate Democrats didn’t uniformly vote to convict Paxton on every article. Only two Democrats voted to convict him on all counts:
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