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With the start of a second day of hearings to consider removal of America’s 45th president, Democrats and Republicans are both hardening their messages to voters.

Most received subpoenas to appear, and both Taylor and Kent had fresh subpoenas Wednesday.

Three witnesses are scheduled for this week and eight more are set to testify in public next week.

And there is still time for action if the momentum stalls, even if the odds get dicier in a presidential election year.

He added that Democratic presidential candidates — six Senate Democrats are running — might prefer to spend their time campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire instead.

The White House has instructed its officials not to comply with the impeachment inquiry being led by House Democrats.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Sunday that he had not yet discussed the whistleblower's offer with Nunes.

That panel would issue a report and release transcripts of the closed-door interviews it has been conducting.

The House is expected to vote on the resolution on Thursday.

Vindman, who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old from the former Soviet Union, served in various military and diplomatic posts before joining the NSC.