Why President Trump's best impeachment defense is destroying Mike Pence

At least 35 Republican senators would vote to remove President Trump from office in an impeachment trial, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Thursday -- if the vote were anonymous. Flake is hardly the only one to suggest something like this; reports abound that GOP lawmakers privately despise the president but feel publicly obliged to support him to curry favor with their voter base.For many of those Republicans, ousting Trump would be made all the more attractive by the prospect of the eleva