Donald Trump has expressed his fears of being impeached should the GOP lose their majority in the midterms, but a bigger issue is looming.
In a speech given earlier this year, Trump said, "You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be -- I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached." But this may not be his only worry for the midterms, according to CNN analyst Stephen Collinson, who believes the Democratic Party will change tactics should they get a House majority.
Collinson wrote, "If Democrats win back the House in November — or even the Senate, in a long-shot scenario — Trump will face a barrage of oversight and investigation that will turn the final two years of his term into an ugly slog.
"A flurry of hearings on Tuesday showed what that might be like. Trump chose his lieutenants for their willingness to flatter, not their skill at deflecting scrutiny. And it showed."
Impeachment may not even be on the cards for the would-be majority from the Democratic Party, as Collinson explains there would be more pressing issues than a failed impeachment vote.
He explained, "Unless Trump did something so heinous that his approval ratings crashed into oblivion and Republicans wanted him gone, there’s almost no chance of a two-thirds Senate majority to convict.
"And no politician has weaponized victimhood so effectively as the author of the greatest political comeback in modern history. And sometimes the political line is a fine one to walk."
Collinson went on to suggest the presence of ICE in Minneapolis had gone so badly that it was, at best, a political hindrance for the Trump administration.
He wrote, "And ICE’s extremism on the streets of Minneapolis has helped turned an issue that was once one of Trump’s best into a political liability.
That may explain the dip in his mood on Fox Business when he mused about the trend of presidents getting midterm election drubbings.
