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Republicans fear backlash when voters decide Trump’s fate in November

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According to a report from the Daily Beast’s David Lurie, Republican Senators who have embraced the rationale of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) that Donald Trump’s fate should be left up to the voters in the 2020 election could see their own careers go down in flames instead.

As Alexander explained his vote to block witnesses with the “American people should decide what to do about what [Trump] did,” Lurie added that particular explanation has become the GOP’s main talking point — and that it will be problematic for GOP candidates.

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“Other Republican senators seemed attracted by Alexander’s rhetoric, and echoed it today before joining him to vote in favor of a sham trial that will inevitably end with Trump’s acquittal. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio intoned that “voters themselves can hold the President accountable in an election,” while Ohio Sen. Rob Portman declaimed that the ‘American people will have the opportunity to have their say at the ballot box.'” he wrote. “Yet Alexander’s two weak arguments are directly at odds with one another. If Alexander and his fellow Republicans have chosen to abdicate their constitutional duty to pass judgment on Trump’s wrongdoing, and to hand that responsibility over to the voters, it then follows that they should have deferred to the demand of the overwhelming majority of voters to hear Bolton’s testimony, as reflected in poll after poll.”

That, Lurie argued, is likely to be a problem for GOP lawmakers who will be on the ballot in November.

“While Alexander is leaving the Senate, his Republican colleagues who will remain in the world’s greatest deliberative body will have to explain their conduct to the voters, many of them this November when they appear on the ballot together with the president in whose service they just undermined the Constitution,” he explained before warning, “We will see what verdict the electorate issues.”

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White woman caught refusing to ride elevator with Essence writer’s son who lives in upscale apartments

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A white woman was caught on video refusing to ride the elevators at an upscale apartment building in Bethesda, Maryland after she saw that a black man was also on the lift.

Yesha Callahan, a writer for Essence magazine, shared video of the incident on Monday.

So my son lives in an upscale high rise in Bethesda...and he's started to keep track of the white people who refuse to get on the elevator w/him. pic.twitter.com/h6ceqIf8cn

— Yesha (@YeshaCallahan) February 3, 2020

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Arizona sex offender threatened to gun down Adam Schiff after watching Fox News: prosecutors

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An Arizona sex offender was charged with making a threatening phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry.

Jan Peter Meister, a registered sex offender from Tucson, was identified through phone records as the caller who left a threatening message on Schiff's office voicemail, according to court documents.

Police played the message for the 52-year-old Meister, who told investigators he did not remember making the call but admitted that he had gotten drunk, and agreed that must have been him on the recording.

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The Iowa caucus is a massive grift — and both Republicans and Democrats are in on it

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There is still no official winner in Iowa after the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) said they found "inconsistencies" in the three sets of results they were supposed to deliver. This Tuesday, the IDP said the problem was caused by a "coding issue" in its reporting system. Writing for the Daily Beast, Stuart Stevens says the Iowa caucus system is "a nutty system no school would sanction to choose a student body president."

"The Iowa caucus system is one of those ideas that seems sort of charming if you think about it for five minutes — a bunch of neighbors getting together in America’s most literate state, the one that gave us Jean Seberg and The Music Man – and utterly insane if you think about it for ten minutes," Stevens writes. "No secret ballot so you’re standing across from your boss when you vote, no early voting and doors close at 7 pm so if you stop for gas your vote doesn’t count, all in a state that doesn’t remotely resemble the American electorate as a whole."

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