Axios: “Top Republicans want to bury President Trump, for good. But they are divided whether to do it with one quick kill via impeachment, or let him slowly fade away. A House impeachment vote, which would make Trump the first president to be impeached twice, is expected in mid-afternoon. Sources tell Axios Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be more likely than not to vote to convict Trump – a green light for other Republican senators to follow.”
“House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy would love a Trumpless world, but doesn’t want to knife him with fingerprints. This school of thought wants to let Trump do himself in, without a big party fight over his sins and sentence. The fade-away caucus sees a danger that the impeachment-conviction route is, as a prominent conservative put it, ‘making him Jesus. … Truly stupid.'”