‘You’re Not Gonna Get These Votes’: Fox’s Neil Cavuto Tells Republican Senator That Mayorkas Impeachment Seems Like ‘Political Theater’
Fox News host Neil Cavuto delivered a sobering reality check to Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) regarding the impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The House impeached Mayorkas in February over his handling of the southern border with Mexico. He became just the second cabinet official ever impeached and the first since 1876. Given that Democrats control the Senate 51-49, Republicans are nowhere close to securing the two-thirds necessary to convict Mayorkas, thus removing him from his office.
“The president likes his Homeland Security secretary,” Cavuto noted to Barrasso on Your World on Fox News. “He serves at the pleasure of the president. President isn’t gonna do anything about him. You’re not gonna get these votes in the Senate. You don’t even have all your Republican colleagues going along. Six didn’t want any part of this. So, this seems more political theater than anything else.”
“Well, I don’t agree,” Barrasso replied. “The United States House of Representatives has impeached a member of the cabinet for the first time in 140-some years.”
“All Republicans,” Cavuto said, alluding to the party-line vote in the lower chamber.
“There is strong evidence to be presented to the United States people,” Barrasso insisted before addressing the possibility that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will dismiss the case rather than hold a formal trial.
House Republicans sent the impeachment articles to the Senate on Tuesday. Forty-three Republican senators wrote a letter to Schumer urging him to hold a trial. Six Republicans did not sign it.
“Chuck Schumer is rewriting the laws for impeachment,” the senator continued.
“So, those six Republicans who disagree, are they just out to lunch or what?” Cavuto asked.
“That’s why you have a trial,” he responded. “There is compelling evidence and people are not supposed to make a decision until after the trial has been completed.”
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