Impeachment witness Alex Vindman runs for U.S. Senate in Florida [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the retired Army officer who played a central role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, is launching a campaign to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, entering a contested primary in a state Republicans have recently dominated.
Vindman is best known for testifying in the 2019 impeachment proceedings about his concerns with a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vindman listened in on the call as a Ukraine expert working for the White House, and he became a key part of Democrats’ case that Trump abused his office by pushing Zelensky to investigate a political rival, Joe Biden.
Now Vindman is jumping into electoral politics, seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Democrats have struggled to compete statewide in recent years in Florida, a onetime swing state that has shifted to the right. The party hopes to make inroads this year and capitalize on a backlash to Trump.
Vindman’s launch video, released Tuesday, opens with news footage from the impeachment proceedings. Trump was narrowly impeached in the Democratic-led House and then acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.
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