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Smart move. They'll never convince House Democrats not to impeach. The goal has to be ensuring Senate Republicans come to believe two things:

(1) Removal is not the appropriate sanction for this misbehavior.
(2) Trump voters will burn the party down before they let Trump lose.
Democrats, meanwhile, have to do three things to win Senate Republicans over:

(1) Demonstrate removable misbehavior.
(2) Keep the investigation transparent enough to overcome Trump follower's reflexive conspiracy-mongering.
(3) Trick Trump into self-injuring "fitness" errors.
On this third point, we know that Trump cannot self-sensor. As this goes on, he will go more and more rage-monster if his advisors cannot find a way to rein him in.

As a result, Dems will be looking for the thing that tips him over from "Trump being Trump" to "Trump is unfit."
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