And even that makes any political calculations murky for Republicans. Although many in the Senate with their own presidential ambitions would likely relish an open field in 2024, they still respect that a vote against Trump may have serious consequences for them at the ballot box.
Frank O. Bowman III, a University of Missouri law professor, told The Guardian that how Republican senators vote "will have everything to do with their narrow political calculation about balancing whatever allegiance they may feel to the constitution with concerns about being attacked from the Trumpist right, to, on the other side, a sense that I suspect many of them have that if they could rid themselves of this turbulent priest, and not have to suffer any major electoral consequences, they’d do it in a minute."
h/t: CNN, The Guardian