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The Senate Impeachment Trial is officially underway and this week on Party Politics, co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina are walking us through the final weeks of politics in 2019!  In this week's episode, Brandon and Jeronimo consider the next steps in the Impeachment Trial against President Trump and offer their insights on what to expect in the weeks to come as the trial moves into 2020. Ahead of the final Democratic Presidential Debate of the year, Brandon and Jeronimo also provide an analysis on the 7 Democratic Candidates that made the cut for Thursday night's Presidential debate, and the political implications of the remaining Democratic Candidates moving forward into 2020. 

NATIONAL TOPICS:

• 2020 Presidential Round-Up: Bloomberg Problems, Bernie Sanders and Baseball, Biden in San Antonio
• Van Drew switching parties
• USMCA trade deal reached
• Spending deal reached

TEXAS TOPICS:

• Houston city elections
• George P. Bush:  Santa Ana and the Alamo
• George P. Bush:  Fail to disclose interest ties
• DSCC endorses Glenn Hagar
• Governor Abbott:  “Get a rope”

You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tweet us using #PartyPoliticsPod or email partypoliticspod@houstonpublicmedia.org. Party Politics is produced by Sophie Moll, the audio engineer is Todd Hulslander.