In Other Impeachment News

The majority of Senate republicans are supporting Sen Graham & McConnell’s impeachment resolution (Graham tweeted the 44 names below), here are the 9 GOP Senators who have not yet signed onto the resolution:
Alexander
Collins
Enzi
Gardner
Isakson
Murkowski
Portman
Romney
Sullivan https://t.co/RH3N6Z5ct1

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 24, 2019

Appearances, as ever, are deceiving:

Very much by design. If it were the latter, the number of signatures would be... not ideal. https://t.co/16GUvDYoUh

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 25, 2019

So the solution is to come up with a good defense:

The president’s team is choosing to attack the impeachment process as their main message. It is behind the storming of the SCIF yesterday and the resolution by Graham today. https://t.co/bpRIjw8tKC

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 25, 2019

Of course, that's not all they're attacking:

NEW tonight — There is legit and growing irritation with Trumpworld among Senate Republicans who are baffled that the president and his allies are attacking them right when an impeachment trial nears. https://t.co/WPtYZrvrXv

With @sambrodey

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 25, 2019

In fact, all of the attacks seem to be coming from inside the White House:

CNN: White House official expected to back up diplomat's testimony over Trump push for Ukraine probe into Bidens
https://t.co/iMpHw647cz

— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) October 25, 2019

Which is probably why they're having trouble coming up with anything resembling a defense.