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Impeachment Trial Could Complicate Democratic Senators' US Presidential Bids

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - Democratic U.S. senators vying for the party's 2020
   presidential nomination face the increasing likelihood of being
   tethered to Washington for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial
   just as they need to ramp up efforts in early-voting states.

   With the U.S. House of Representatives set to vote on Thursday on next
   steps in the impeachment probe, lawmakers there anticipate the
   investigation could wrap up by year's end or early 2020, at which point
   the process will move to the Senate.

   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has said a trial
   requiring the presence of the full Senate could take place six days a
   week. That would keep the six Democratic presidential candidates who
   serve in the chamber off the campaign trail right before the first
   nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire on Feb. 3 and Feb. 11,
   respectively.
   

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