Some members of the public may oppose impeaching trump even though they think he is guilty.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Because they know that the Senate repugs will acquit him, and thus give him an undeserved "victory".

In other words, some members of the public may foresee a bad outcome and oppose impeachment only for this reason.

[greenjar_01]

1. Speculative and not very compelling

I'm a meh on that.

[Beartracks]

2. It *should* be obvious that such a "victory" in the Republican Senate would be a hollow one.

The Republicans have readily informed the world that they don't care about evidence, they've already made their minds up to just quickly "go through the motions" of a trial and then acquit him - with the White House's blessing and assistance.

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[Thomas Hurt]

5. hollow as seen from the outside, from the right's POV

that is sticking it to the libs.......they don't give a sh*t if they look unprincipled.

They have abandoned to whole family values bee ess scam along with everything else they were selling when O was in office.

Rank hypocrisy, lying, cheating, suppressing voting, is not beneath them.

The hollow victory is only obvious to us socialists.

[OliverQ]

3. What's going to be more harmful:

Trump getting impeached by the House, but being acquitted by his own party who admitted they would run a sham trial, or

Not getting impeached at all and Trump bragging that not even the House Dems thought he was bad enough to impeach?

[RockRaven]

4. And some members of the public support impeaching Trump BECAUSE the Senate will acquit him

and rather than be a win it will expose in one simple and clear incident the depth of the corruption, dishonestly, oath-violating, and betrayal of the Constitution in each and every GrOPer in the Senate in a way which a vote on this or that bill or judicial nominee never quite captures.

Whichever way things go, the group of people who were correct are going to say "See, I knew it! Told ya!!" and the group of people who were wrong are going to be conspicuously silent.

[Generic Brad]

6. If the stock market tanks they will be singing a different tune

[world wide wally]

7. When the Senate does acquit him, we better have our surrogates out IN FORCE

[Joe941]

8. I wonder if we should put off impeachment until we win the senate.

That way we get greater than 50% to vote to convict.