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McConnell privately says he wants Trump gone as Republicans quietly lobby him to convict [cnn.com]:

McConnell privately says he wants Trump gone as Republicans quietly lobby him to convict

The lobbying started in the House after the January 6 attack on the Capitol [cnn.com] and in the days leading up to impeachment [cnn.com]. But it's now more focused on Sen. Mitch McConnell, the powerful minority leader who has signaled he may support convicting Trump.

"Mitch said to me he wants Trump gone," one Republican member of Congress told CNN. "It is in his political interest to have him gone. It is in the GOP interest to have him gone. The question is, do we get there?"

McConnell had proposed delaying the trial [cnn.com] until February, but with the articles coming to the Senate on Monday, the process will likely be set in motion sooner. It would take 17 Republicans to join all 50 Democrats in order to convict. While the bar is high, some GOP sources think there is more of an appetite to punish the former President than is publicly apparent.

"There were 10 House Republicans who voted for impeachment. There were probably over 150 who supported it," said Charlie Dent, a former Republican congressman and CNN contributor.

CNN's Pamela Brown and Manu Raju contributed to this story.

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