If they left the investigation open, GOP candidates could point to the probe as evidence that they are acting as a check on the president while at the same time calling it a rigorous investigation that still has found no indication of Trump-Russia collusion. 7/
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It’s not like Democrats in competitive districts are banging their drums about the Russia probe. They want to avoid questions that lead to their opinion on impeachment 18/
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But the controversy over the credibility of the House GOP probe and report gives Democrats in competitive districts an opening to remind voters of Trump’s Russia problem by framing it as a power-check issue. That is, two birds, one stone, no impeachment talk. 19/
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Sure, framing it that way opens the door for the impeachment question, but that’s easily deflected by saying Congress needs to be able to do oversight to find out what happened, not to judge Trump before all the facts are in. 20/
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In the interest of circularity, I come back to the original point: I don’t understand the House GOP’s strategy here. It does not seem to be one that helps them. 22/
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I’m not a political strategist, so I’d be very curious to hear arguments for why l’m wrong and this is the best strategy for the House GOP. Fire away. 23/
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It strikes me that the motivation is similar to the Nunes Release the Memo debacle. Just as in that case it allows the President to partake in another sip of the vindication cup. Albeit it seems shortsighted to me
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I think an open investigation was politically useful. Only logical if something big is happening tomorrow. But logic does not necessarily drive this
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