Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

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20 years, 11 months and 29 days after Newt Gingrich's House impeach Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi's House will vote to impeach Donald Trump,

tattooing an asterisk on the 45th president's legacy and giving new definition to Republicans and Democrats.

For House Republicans, it's Dakota on two years of unshakable and at times irrational

support for Trump.

For the first time in history, the impeachment of a president will feature known votes from

the minority party, a fact Republicans boast about, and Democrats scowl at, but it's

significant no matter which way you read it.

An era of partisanship

that began in the Clinton years is reaching its pinnacle today. House Democrats have,

quite shockingly, fallen almost uniformly behind the impeachment, defying conventional wisdom

and political gravity. From Oklahoma City to rural upstate New York, Orange County to ex-surban

Chicago, Pelosi's Democratic Party has locked arms on this vote

to close out 2019 and to cap off what's usually a busy off-year season of legislating.

We enter this historic day knowing with certainty how practically every lawmaker will vote,

save Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kine, who has kept his intentions characteristically close to the vest.

Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson has signaled he'll vote no. New Jersey Congressman Jeff

Van Drew, who's expected to become a Republican, says he'll vote no. Both Republicans and

Democrats agree on this. The other side is making a monumental and defining mistake.

Trump summed up both parties' view of their opposition in his rambling letter Tuesday, saying

history will judge you harshly. The president was referring to Democrats who he says are conducting summed up both parties' view of their opposition in his rambling letter Tuesday, saying history

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