https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/poli...mpeachment-run-2024-secret-service/index.html
the senate would have to hold a seperate vote itself to ban him from running again. Would be career suicide, hell if they do vote to impeach him it will be career suicide. Trump has a fringe solid group of 20-30% of GOP voters that would never vote for any of them again.
do you think trumpists give a shit about anybody other than donald trump?
hell, i dont even know why ted cruz thinks he'll somehow win over the trump cultists support in his 2024 run by standing with trump. trump supporters only care about one man. donald trump, and to them, he'll always be Lyin' Ted in their eyes.
donald trump will just be a footnote in history that the party is trying to erase, and will soon be forgotten. its not going to help them in 2-4 years from now when the party is trying to move on from donald trump, and these trump boot-lickers seats are up for re-electiion. you can damn well expect every one of these peoples names to get dragged through the mud during their next election cycle by their political opponents.
even if they choose not to convict, these republican senators will have to sign their name on record as the donald trump sock puppet who chose donald trump over their own party, and their own country. in 2 years donald trump will be all but forgotten. but people will remember these peoples names. they spent the last 2 months believing in trumps election fraud hoax, they spent the last 4 years just dealing with his lies and enabling him and doing what he tells them to do, and now theyre backed into a corner. if this whole impeachment thing is going to hurt anybody, it wont be the democrats. it will be the trump loyalists.
give it some time to heal and more people will see just how theyve been lied to for the last 4 years by one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever be in power. this isnt going to win the republicans any favors by continuing to kiss donald trumps ass, even after he's out of office. the party will move on from trump, and eventually so will the people.