Donald Trump, current President of the United States, awaits his senate hearing following his impeachment by the House. As he waits, he must still run the country and campaign for a second term in office.
Assuming Trump stays in office and does not get voted out by the Senate, his 2020 campaign for a second term will likely be affected by the recent hearings in the House. Trump and his team are already using his impeachment to their advantage during the campaign. “We’ve had 300,000 new donors reach out to us since Nancy Pelosi announced her impeachment inquiry a few months back,” Marc Lotter, director of strategic communications for the Trump 2020 campaign, said in an interview with NPR‘s Ari Shapiro. Trump and his team are pouncing on the opportunity to gain political leverage for a second campaign, and it seems to be working.
Trump’s impeachment process also has rippling effects on the Democratic Party. “The dilemma for the Democrats is that the impeachment process will dominate the news cycle as they jockey for position,” Dennis Altman, author for QZ, writes. With most of the Democrats’ and the media’s attention on a possible impeachment, their campaigns and ads will likely get drowned out by the flow of news.
The impeachment process has rippling effects on all parties involved and will have an important impact on everyone’s campaign in 2020. Although impeachment may seem bad for Trump, it could make or break his second term.