Many of the most vulnerable House Democrats have announced their support for impeachment articles.
There are a couple of important reasons why these Democrats, even if they are terrified out of their minds, wouldn’t help themselves much even if they did vote against impeachment.with media outlets showed, opposing impeachment isn’t something the Democratic base, in any district, would just let slide as if it were some policy dispute about international shipping lanes.
Second, these Democrats have already voted for the impeachment inquiry rules. It does not take a particularly active imagination to recognize that Republican opponents would ignore certain nuances and call that October vote a “vote for impeachment.” With that twistable vote already on the record, members might as well vote the way they want to, and the way that they found to be backed up by the facts. Voting based on conviction can seem unusual around Congress.
“The greatest protection these members will have, all members will have,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday, “is that they vote their conviction and the Constitution, not the politics.” Hoyer reiterated multiple times, too, that “nobody has been whipped on this issue”—not from him, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or Majority Whip James Clyburn.
That doesn’t mean that they’re not keeping tabs, or that they have no interest in projecting a show of unity to counter that of the House Republicans, zero of whom are expected to vote for either impeachment article on Wednesday. Each side will go down together. And if Democrats can’t get a read on how they’ll fare in the 2020 elections, they can at least be sure to get it right for history.Readers like you make our work possible.
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