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Posted: 2020-02-03T23:59:15Z | Updated: 2020-02-04T11:33:41Z

Some Donald Trump supporters are peeved the president wont be cleared of wrongdoing by the Senate before he walks into the House of Representatives on Tuesday to deliver his annual State of the Union address.

Its unacceptable that theyre going to have [the Senate impeachment vote] the following day after his State of the Union. And you know what theyre going to do...Theyre going to have a counter-narrative to everything the president says, disgraced former White House strategist Steve Bannon complained Sunday in an interview on Fox News .

If I was the president, Id say, Hey look. Lets do it the following Tuesday, lets do it the night of New Hampshire. Ill address the nation and see how they like that, Bannon added in the interview.

Senate Republicans hoped to move to a quick acquittal vote after successfully blocking witnesses and other evidence from his trial on Friday the first time in history a presidential impeachment trial will not feature witnesses.

But Democrats successfully pushed to prolong the proceedings for several days in order to allow time for both the House impeachment managers and Trumps defense team to give closing arguments and to allow all senators an opportunity to speak on the floor before a final vote on removal on Wednesday afternoon.

We are in the minority, but we do have some power in the minority and we will use it to prevent things from just being truncated in the dark of night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters on Friday before announcing a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that laid out the end of the trial.