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Even in blue California, impeachment of Trump inspires more exhaustion than elation

LOS ANGELES - James Fugate had a lot to say for a man who insisted he wasn't watching the U.S. House of Representatives get ready to vote on impeaching President Donald Trump.

"I just wish this national nightmare would be over," the co-owner of Eso Won Books said Wednesday morning as he rang up customers in his Leimert Park shop. "Every time you hear a Republican make a speech, you want to scream. But they control the Senate.... It's a foregone conclusion: He's not going to be removed."

Even here in one of the bluest states in the country - a place that has defied the president on everything from immigration to climate change - voters say they are getting tired.

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