It’s crunch time in the midterm elections, and Democrats are pulling out all the stops to hold on to their endangered Senate majority, including reviving the specter of impeachment if they lose control.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will sound the siren in an email set to be sent on Wednesday afternoon to the roughly 1 million members of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a copy of which was viewed in advance by TPM.
“Frankly, a Republican House and Senate could go beyond shutting down the government — they could waste months of our lives on impeachment. And every month that goes by without solutions, struggling Americans are in pain,” he writes (emphasis in the original).
Even if Republicans were to win control of the Senate, it would not mean they’d have the two-thirds majority needed to remove the president from office in the event that the House votes to impeach him. There was some talk of impeaching President Barack Obama among Republicans earlier this year but that has largely died down in the run-up to next week’s midterm election.
The subject line of the PCCC email will be, “I need these three” — referring to Iowa’s Bruce Braley, Colorado’s Mark Udall and Alaska’s Mark Begich.
The email, signed by Reid, asks for donations for the candidates.
