Democratic Party impeachment managers just made a BIG mistake, they pissed off Alaska Senator and possible swing vote Lisa Murkowski by refusing to answer her questions about potential witnesses.

Murkowski asked why it was so critical to have witnesses that Democrats refused to subpoena when the House was in charge of the impeachment process.

Her exact question:

“In early October, Mr. Cipollone sent the letter saying none of the subpoenas issued by the House were appropriately authorized and thus invalid.

When the House passed the resolution authorizing the impeachment inquiry and granting subpoena power to the intelligence and judiciary committees, the body could have addressed the deficiency the White House pointed out and proclaimed those subpoenas as valid exercises of the impeachment inquiry.

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Alternatively, the House could have reissued the subpoenas after the resolution was adopted. Please explain why neither of those actions took place.”

That was when Democrats made their big mistake by not only refusing to answer the question, but by attacking the Alaska Senator instead, as The Federalist reports:

Texas Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia delivered the answer for the impeachment managers and spent several minutes attacking the senator and the White House rather than answer the critical question of the moment as the Senate deliberates whether to call new witnesses to drag out the trial for months.

“These arguments, plain and simple, are a red herring,” Garcia declared. “The House’s impeachment inquire and its subpoena were fully authorized by the Constitution, the House rules, and precedent. It is for the House, not the president, to decide how to conduct an impeachment inquiry.”

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Garcia continued. “The president has asserted the power to determine himself which congressional subpoenas he will respond to and those he will not.”

Garcia said nothing addressing Murkowski’s question, which was why the House did not reissue the subpoenas that the administration declared invalid, or challenge the White House on its ruling. Democrats now claim that the impeachment process cannot be fair without hearing from new witnesses such as former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who should have testified in the lower chamber before the House rushed to pass the articles of impeachment before Christmas.

Lisa Murkowski asked a savage question “Why didn’t you re-issue the subpoenas when you finally AUTHORIZED the hearing?” And Sylvia Garcia answers the question in the most insulting way possible by suggesting it’s a red herring They just lost her vote#ImpeachmentTrial — Will Chamberlain 🇺🇸 (@willchamberlain) January 30, 2020

How dumb do you have to be to attack a Senator who’s support you need to get witnesses.

Well, no one ever claimed Democrats were smart.