Washington (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg argued Sunday that American voters will soon serve as Donald Trump's jurors ahead of the President's anticipated acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial this week.

"As upsetting as what's going on in the Senate is, the thing that I'm always reminding voters of, especially in these closing days of the Iowa caucuses, is that yeah, the Senate is the jury today, but we are the jury tomorrow and we get to send a message at the ballot box that cheating, lying, involving a foreign country in our own domestic politics -- not to mention abuse of power more broadly and (a) bad administration -- that that's not okay, that we can do better," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

The comments from the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor come two days after Senate leaders struck an agreement to hold the final vote to acquit Trump on the two articles of impeachment on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET. The agreement was made after the Senate on Friday voted to block any witnesses from being called in the trial, which Democrats had been aggressively pushing for.

Buttigieg said Sunday that he thinks Republican senators "know better" and that "the only shock waves that will reunite them with their conscience is a thumping at the ballot box for Donald Trump and those who supported him."

"That's why it is so important right now, beginning tomorrow even here in Iowa, that we have a candidate, a nominee, a campaign that can deliver that, that can bring together that American majority that is ready for something completely different from a presidency like Donald Trump's," he said.

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