Mr Trump is all but assured of being acquitted at only the third impeachment trial of a US president, with Republicans holding 53 seats in the Senate to 47 for the Democrats.Ms Ernst said it was"up to the American people" to decide on Mr Trump's behaviour, adding that she would vote tomorrow to acquit the President, who is also accused of obstruction of Congress.
"I think generally speaking, going after corruption is the right thing to do, but he did it in the wrong manner... I think that he could have done it in different channels," she told CNN. Last Friday, just two Republicans - Mr Mitt Romney of Utah and Ms Susan Collins of Maine - joined Democrats in voting to introduce witnesses, following the example of every other impeachment trial in US history.
In the impeachment trial, Democrats failed to muster the four Republican votes needed to allow testimony from Mr Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and others. Democrats had been eager to hear from Mr Bolton following reports that, in a forthcoming book, he says Mr Trump told him military aid to Ukraine was tied to Kiev's investigating former vice-president Biden. This is the crux of the charge against Mr Trump, coming from someone close to him.
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