Democrats, GOP face defining moments after Capitol riot

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Both political parties are trying to figure out how to move forward following the cataclysmic events of Jan. 6, when a mob fueled by conspiracies and riled up by a president in his final days in office ransacked the Capitol.

House Democrats are set this week to move to impeach President Trump —short of an unlikely eleventh-hour move by Vice President Pence — but there is some division within the party over the process and politics of what would be the second impeachment effort in Congress in just more than a year.

Few if any Democrats think Trump does not deserve to be impeached. But there are worries impeachment could backfire by hurting President-elect Joe Biden during his first 100 days in office, distracting from the new commander in chief’s focus on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and healing the nation’s divides. Continue reading.