Pressure grows on Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment tonight
Donald Trump’s tweets today incited an armed domestic terrorist attack against the U.S. Capitol Building, and he’s since done nothing meaningful to bring the ongoing siege to an end. Trump can no longer be allowed to remain President for the final two weeks.
Accordingly, there is now growing pressure on Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. Prior to today, there never seemed to be any scenario where he might actually do it. But today has changed a lot of things rather quickly.
It’s not just Democratic leaders who are calling for Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. Business leaders, including the National Association of Manufacturers, are also calling on Pence to invoke the 25th. This is a bigger deal, because the Republican Party doesn’t want to lose these kinds of votes in the next election.
So now we’ll see if Mike Pence decides that it’s in his own personal career interests to go ahead and invoke the 25th Amendment. He’d need the support of a majority of the cabinet, and it’s unclear what those numbers would look like at this point. But we’re seeing the issue quickly being forced.
