Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat whose home state of West Virginia gave President Trump his biggest margin of victory in 2016, said he would vote Wednesday with other Senate Democrats to convict the president on two articles of impeachment.
“The charges brought against President Trump are serious and carry grave consequences for our nation,” he said.
“The evidence presented by the House Managers, including video testimony of witnesses under oath in the House of Representatives, clearly supports the charges brought against the President in the articles of impeachment,” he added.
Manchin’s decision is a setback for Trump who was hoping to be able to point to a bipartisan acquittal in the Senate trial.
“We expect a bipartisan vote in the United States Senate,” Vice President Mike Pence had said earlier on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News. “The only bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives was against the articles of impeachment. And we expect a bipartisan vote in the United States Senate today.”
Instead, it’s Senate Democrats who can claim a bipartisan vote to remove the president from office after Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) shocked his colleagues Wednesday afternoon by announcing he would vote for two articles of impeachment.
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#BREAKING: Manchin will vote to convict Trump https://t.co/dq4lyr8SeY pic.twitter.com/S7jRuK9AGW
— The Hill (@thehill) February 5, 2020
Good for Manchin and Synema. They could easily voted to not acquit Trump because the fix was already in and it MIGHT have hurt them politically but they did the right thing instead which will only help their legacy and place in the history books. #impeachment
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) February 5, 2020
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