With less to lose, will retiring Republicans desert Trump?
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retiring congressional Republicans are a natural group to watch for defectors as Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump builds steam. But they’re not crumbling yet. While most are leaving politics and feeling less pressure to defend Trump, the retirees sound much like their GOP colleagues who are staying in Congress. They’ve downplayed the case against Trump, criticized the impeachment investigation, been vague or said nothing. “Impeachment would be a mistake,” Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a Republican bellwether on the issue, said in a statement Wednesday. He said while it was “inappropriate” for Trump to...