He won’t work for Hillary again.
One of Hillary Clinton’s top aides raised the prospect of impeachment for President Trump on Wednesday but seemed grim about the prospects for Democrats in 2020 trying to unseat him outright, saying the party’s field will be “a bit of a circus.”
Philippe Reines, who was a key assistant in Mrs. Clinton’s two presidential campaigns and served her while she was in the Senate and State Department, said he expects Democrats to make big gains in congressional elections this year but is “bearish” on chances of stopping Mr. Trump’s re-election.
He said Mr. Trump has broken so many rules of politics that dozens of potential candidates could take a look at the 2020 race, but it’s not clear that any of them will be able to effectively battle the president.
“I think it’s going to be a bit of a circus in the Democratic Party. I think we all could name 30 people who might run,” Mr. Reines said at a forum with college students sponsored by the Washington Center.
He said winning control of the House this year could give Democrats the chance to derail Mr. Trump’s agenda and to pursue investigations against the administration, potentially ending with impeachment or his ouster.
Mr. Reines cheered those pushing for impeachment or using the 25th Amendment to oust him as incapacitated.
“I think the man has met the threshold, and that’s all that’s important,” he said.
Mr. Reines, who saw Mrs. Clinton’s electoral loss up close, said attacks on her campaign were misplaced.
He said she had trouble with the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and it wasn’t for lack of trying. He said Mrs. Clinton spent so much time campaigning that she “practically moved to Pennsylvania.”