The impeachment is over. Now the real political risk begins. This is verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles.

Impeachment is over. Finally. Now you can get a good night's sleep. Now we can get a good night's sleep.

But actually we were talking about this a little bit last episode. Impeachment was always going to end the way it was going to end.

It was never going to end in the removal of the president. In some ways I wonder if impeachment was kind of the safe period for

conservatives and politics. And actually now the real threat begins. We are told every single election cycle.

This is the most important election of our lifetimes.

Now everything is about 2020. I want to know from your vantage on the inside in the Senate,

what is really at stake in 2020? Like I think it is an unbelievably consequential election and on a lot of fronts.

But let's step back. Take just the meta level first.

Reward and punishment. Look back over the last year, over the last three years.

Do you like the behavior of the Democrats? No. Do you like the nuttiness? Do you like the nuttiness?

Do you like the gallop to the left? Do you like the abuse of the Department of Justice and the FBI and targeting the president,

attacking the president and impeaching him for partisan purposes? Do you like the squad,

Naomi, attacking Israel, embracing socialism and going nuts? If you do,

well, depending on what happens in November, we'll either get a lot more of it or a lot less of it.

What? I mean obviously they've run far to the left.

What could happen though? I mean just beyond more crazy AOC tweets and speeches.

If the Democrats are rewarded in November, they have a good election.

Yeah.

Everything we've seen now gets amplified and it gets amplified tenfold.

Politicians are not complicating creatures. They react to incentives. If something works, they do it again.

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