Hello and welcome to this impeachment reaction edition of the 538 Politics Podcast.

I'm Gaelin Drouk.

Today, President Trump became the first president in American history to be impeached twice.

I'm sure listeners probably already know that at this point, the House voted 232 to 197

to affirm a single article.

In sightment of insurrection.

Ten Republicans voted for impeachment, we'll discuss who they are, that makes it a bipartisan

effort and the most bipartisan impeachment vote in history.

But that is less than the up to two dozen Republicans that some reports initially suggested

might vote for impeachment.

So for some background here, yesterday, the third most powerful Republican in the House

list, Cheney, announced that she would vote to impeach the president.

And a majority leader Mitch McConnell's office appears to have also told reporters that

he backed the effort in the House, although he has not made clear if he would vote for

conviction in the Senate.

He said he would wait for the trial arguments to decide, but that he would not call the Senate

into session earlier than January 19th in order to hold that trial.

So here with me to talk about the impeachment vote and what happens next is senior politics

writer Perry Bacon Jr.

Hey Perry.

Hi Gaelin.

Walter here with us is senior reporter and polling editor at the Huffington Post aerial

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