The final vote that day was 230 to 197 with one abstention from Tulsi Gabbard, a Putin-admiring, Fox News regular from Hawaii who was nominally a Democrat.[50] The only Republican who voted in favor of impeachment was Justin Amash, a libertarian from Michigan who had quit the party the previous summer over his concerns about Trump and announced he was not running for re-election. Trump, meanwhile, spent the evening in Amash’s district in Battle Creek, Michigan, being cheered at a rally by tens of thousands of his red-hatted fans. When the vote came, around 8:30 that night, an aide carried a
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