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“Senator after senator kept coming up to me and saying, ‘Who is that guy? Who is that guy?’” U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet told a Capitol Hill pool reporter Wednesday night, after Day Two of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
That guy is U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a 36-year-old Democrat from Lafayette who’s serving as one of nine impeachment managers (read: prosecutors). The rising Democratic star has been given a national stage this week and has impressed.
“He’s showing us, right now as an impeachment manager, what I’ve seen in him since I first met him in college — he is smart, he is humble, he is a leader,” Democratic state Rep. Leslie Herod told The Post’s Alex Burness this…