Dems Vow To Impeach Trump Again Even If He Wins 2020 Election -- And They Could Succeed

Even if President Donald Trump survives impeachment and is re-elected next year, his troubles will likely be far from over. Some Democrats have already made their intention clear to doggedly pursue Trump until they succeed in ousting him from office.

On Monday, House Democrats formally filed two articles of impeachment against Trump and although they are likely to be approved in a House vote, the Republican-dominated Senate is unlikely to vote to convict. That won’t deter Democrats, though.

In an interview with Yahoo News, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said that even if the Senate fails to impeach Trump, “that does not mean that it's over,” adding that “it simply means that for these two charges the President has not been convicted and he is still in office, which means that he is still subject to impeachment for other charges.”

Green was the first House representative to call for Trump’s impeachment. Speaking on the House floor in May 2017, Green argued that Trump’s decision to fire then-FBI Director James Comey warranted impeachment proceedings. He has filed three articles of impeachment since then, each time garnering an increasing number of supporters among fellow Democratic representatives.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) has also made similar remarks. In an interview Tuesday, she said that there is a possibility that even if the two articles of impeachment filed Monday do not result in Trump’s removal from the White House, there may be reasons to push for other charges. “There's a ton of information that could come forward. For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he's owned 100 percent by the Russians,” Bass said.

Even in the likelihood that Trump is not convicted by the Senate this year, the outcome could end up being extremely damaging for the President and Republicans on the Hill. Republicans seeking to retain their congressional seats in 2020 could face a backlash for their refusal to remove Trump from the Oval Office, opening the possibility of losing their Senate majority to the Democrats.

In such an event – and one where Trump is successfully re-elected – it would create circumstances where Democrats could successfully impeach and convict Trump in 2021. It is also possible that concern over this scenario may sway some Republicans to, at the very least, cast a token vote in favor of impeachment.

Such a vote could prove to be political savvy, because while Republicans in national polling largely do not support impeaching Trump, there are indications that some heavily conservative districts have a surprising number of voters who favor the President’s removal from office.