Originally Posted by jwb

It's inexcusable not to have witnesses in the trial, and I think most people know this. Yet the Trump team doesn't want witnesses, they don't want Trump to testify himself, they don't want documents sent over, etc.

Any Republican Senator who cooperates with the Democrats and votes for witnesses such as John Bolton risk becoming an enemy of Trump and being primaried by a Trump supporter in the upcoming elections in the Senate.

Yet there are a few Senators in purple districts that will have a lot of pressure from their constituents to vote in favor of witnesses.

So these 4-6 Senators are between a rock and a hard place. Very possible several of them will fall by the wayside in the upcoming elections as a direct result of how they vote on impeachment.