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Senators Give Speeches Ahead of Expected Vote to Acquit Trump in Impeachment
Trial

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   U.S. Senators were delivering speeches Tuesday on whether President
   Donald Trump should be removed from office, as he himself prepared to
   deliver his annual State of the Union address later in the day before
   members of Congress.

   The speeches by the senators, who are serving as the jurors in Trump's
   impeachment trial, are not officially part of the trial itself, and are
   unlikely to make much of a difference in the senators' expected
   acquittal of Trump when they cast a final vote on Wednesday.

   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who helped plan an abbreviated
   trial that didn't allow new witness testimony or evidence, said the
   impeachment charges against Trump do not "even approach a case for the
   first presidential removal in American history."
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