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Tide, Tigers and Trump: President hopes for home-field advantage in Alabama

"Presumably a college football crowd in Alabama is going to be a friendlier audience and an audience that’s kind of his base in that part of the country," said Guian McKee, an associate professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. "There is a little bit of a risk here," McKee added. "It is a college town, and if he gets booed at that game it sort of deepens the problem for him."

Guian McKee

The 25th Amendment: Three questions about a tool to oust presidents

In contrast, impeachment only requires a simple majority in the House before a two-thirds majority in the Senate to remove. “However difficult it is to impeach someone, this is even more difficult,” says Saikrishna Prakash, professor of law and Miller Center fellow at the University of Virginia.

Saikrishna Prakash

Third Party Candidates

Third-party candidates aren’t new. Even before the modern Democratic and Republican parties staked out their territory in the American political landscape, candidates outside the mainstream have waged challenges to the status quo. Most of the time, they lose. But they do matter. Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher: the history and future of third-party candidates in the American political system, featuring Barbara Perry from the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

What do local elections say about impeachment public sentiment?

Voters across the country are heading to the polls, but there’s a lot of attention on the big races in states like Mississippi, Kentucky, and Virginia that could reveal how voters feel about President Trump. NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, former White House Cabinet Secretary under President Obama Chris Lu, and New York Times Reporter Jeremy Peters join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the politics of impeachment.

Chris Lu