Trump Impeachment Star Witness Alexander Vindman Makes Longshot Run For Senate

Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council official who played a central role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2019, entered Florida’s 2026 Senate race Tuesday to unseat Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.

Vindman, who testified about his concerns about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, highlighted footage from the impeachment trial in his campaign launch video. Though the Democrat is likely to make his anti-Trump resistance as central part of his campaign pitch, the political newcomer is likely to face an uphill battle in the Republican-leaning Sunshine State the president won by 13 points in November 2024.

“The last time you saw me was here,” Vindman said in a campaign announcement video referencing the impeachment trial. “Swearing an oath to tell the truth about a president who broke his.”

The Senate acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial in a vote of 52-48.

Vindman’s campaign announcement video also referred to the president as a “wannabe tyrant” and claimed Trump unleashed a “reign of terror and retribution” against him and his family.

Vindman, an Iraq War veteran, left the Army after a decades-long career in 2020 and launched a failed lawsuit against Trump and several aides for “intimidation and retaliation.” His wife, Rachel Vindman, lashed out