With a slate of hearings in the Judiciary Committee beginning next week, House Democrats have one final shot to drive up public support for impeachment
For months, senior Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, resisted calls to launch impeachment proceedings, citing lack of public support as one of the primary reasons. But now many of those same lawmakers say they couldn’t let what was a clear abuse of power — Trump’s pressure campaign to force Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden — go unchecked.
Another poll released Tuesday from POLITICO/Morning Consult also showed that support remained about the same over the past month. Half the country now supports Trump’s removal from office, but there’s been no discernible change in the national mood after the hearings. Rep. Madeleine Dean , who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said next week’s hearing will be key to laying out details of impeachment that “unless you're a historian or a political scientist, you might not know.”“I think the polls are interesting, but certainly our work has to be tied to the evidence, the law and our oath of office,” Dean said, adding, “To have half the folks, 50 percent of the folks, not just supporting impeachment but removal, to me, that’s an impressive number.
Though at least two Democrats are expected to oppose the effort — Reps. Jeff Van Drew of New Jerseyand Collin Peterson of Minnesota voted against the impeachment inquiry last month — Beyer said the overwhelming sentiment is that articles of impeachment are warranted.Democrats are still facing an unsettled landscape as they ponder their next moves, including when to begin drafting articles of impeachment and how quickly to bring those articles to the House floor for a vote.
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