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Welcome to Pots-Ave America, I'm John Fabra.

I'm John Lovey.

I'm Tommy Ditor.

I'm Dan Fyfer.

We are recording this in Des Moines, just hours away from the very first primary contest

of the 2020 election, the Iowa caucuses.

We've all been driving around the state for the last couple days, trying to hit up as many

candidates events as we can and talk to some caucus goers and volunteers.

You're going to hear some of those conversations in a bit, and we'll talk about what the race

looks like as we head into the final day.

But first, we should talk about what appears to be the end of Donald Trump's impeachment

trial.

On Friday, Senate Republicans voted to make this the only impeachment trial in history,

where the public was not allowed to hear from new witnesses or consider new evidence.

The vote failed 51-49 with Mitt Romney and Susan Collins as the only two Republicans

who voted with the Democrats.

A number of Republicans, including Lamar Alexander, Marco Rubio and Rob Portman, basically said

that even if the president was guilty of bribing a foreign government to investigate his political

opponent, he shouldn't be held accountable for it.

And the rest of them just said he didn't do anything wrong.

So the final vote to acquit Trump will be held on Wednesday, right after he delivers

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