An assault weapons ban and impeachment are popular with the rank and file. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team must weigh more than public sentiment. And those other factors have persuaded them to move cautiously on both fronts.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team must weigh more than public sentiment.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi That's the question House Democrats keep asking themselves about two issues of growing relevance over the last few weeks.
Within the House itself, Democrats voicing public support for impeachment proceedings now represent more than half the 235-member caucus. Nearly 200 of them have co-sponsored legislation to ban assault weapons. No one in party leadership believes that either Trump or Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell – both close allies of the NRA – would permit an assault weapons ban to pass and become law.
But Democrats still hold some 35 rural districts of their own, and Pelosi lived through the Democratic election wipeout that followed passage of the 1994 assault weapons ban. Similar calculations shadow the emotional intra-party debate over impeachment. Democratic hostility to Trump has crested in the wake of the president's racist statements and the targeted mass shooting of Hispanics by a white supremacist in El Paso.
On both fronts, Pelosi does not argue for doing nothing. Instead she has pushed for lesser measures in a play for time.
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