Democratic impeachment holdouts grapple with rising pressure.
WASHINGTON — This was the week the Democratic caucus wanted to move forward, or at least discuss, presidential impeachment — loudly, urgently, overwhelmingly.“At this point, it’s something that I would prefer not to do now,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., who said Wednesday that he had read the
Their ranks dropped precipitously over the course of the week: on Wednesday morning, for instance, there were two dozen Democrats who had yet to publicly back some sort of impeachment action. By the end of the day, that number had dropped by a third. But within the next day, McBath and Davids were speaking up themselves — in favor of impeachment action.
It also included Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Ariz., who told reporters Wednesday, before his public shift, that he hadn’t yet made a decision on impeachment in part due to concern it could distract Democrats from policy progress. “What do you think the president will do if [senators] don’t remove him? What do you think he’ll say to the American people? He’ll say it’s a witch hunt,” she said."And when they do, he will then have one year to declare to the American people that ‘this was a witch hunt and cry no collusion, no obstruction; I am innocent; I am a martyr.
While the holdouts may have been the most visible Democratic departures from the party line, that line was by no means as decisive as the numbers might have suggested.
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