McConnell remaking Senate in age of Trump, impeachment

Long before Donald Trump’s impeachment landed in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had one piece of advice for the president: Focus on the House. It was the GOP leader's central strategy to produce as partisan an impeachment as possible -- too polarizing for any centrists to touch -- to secure Republican acquittal in the Senate. “He understood right from the start, this was crooked politics,” said Trump, singling McConnell out for praise Thursday at the White House.

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