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Harris joins impeachment call during Democratic town hall

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Last Updated : Apr 23 2019 | 10:35 AM IST

California Sen. Kamala Harris joined the call for President Donald Trump's impeachment on Monday as five leading Democratic presidential contenders clashed in a series of prime-time town hall meetings that exposed deep divisions in a party desperate to end the Trump presidency.

Harris' unexpected support for impeachment follows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's push for Congress to begin the process to remove the Republican president following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report a plan all but certain to fail without significant Republican support.

"There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution," Warren said.

"If any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail."
"I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy," Sanders said. "Yes, even for terrible people." McDaniel responded on social media: "If you had any doubt about how radical the Democrat Party has become, their 2020 frontrunner wants to let terrorists convicted of murdering American citizens vote from prison. It's beyond extreme."
"We've got a White House that's actually computed that it's better off politically if this problem goes unsolved," Buttigieg said. "It's been used to divide us."
Foreign policy was also an afterthought for most of the night, though Sanders drew cheers from the young crowd when he condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for treating Palestinians "unfairly."
The Vermont senator said he believes the United States should "deal with the Middle East on a level-playing-field basis." The goal, he continued, must be to try to bring people together and "not just support one country, which is now run by a right-wing, dare I say, racist government."

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First Published: Apr 23 2019 | 10:35 AM IST

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