NBC: Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump
Democrats reached the milestone following claims Trump might have withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure officials there to investigate Joe Biden and his son.
One independent, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, also supports starting an impeachment inquiry.
Two hundred and nineteen House Democrats and one independent — a majority of the chamber's 435 members — now favor some kind of impeachment action against President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News tally.
House Democrats reached the milestone a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into the president following claims that he might have withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure officials there to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
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WNU Editor: The tally is the following. 219 Democrats, one Independent, and no Republicans. The list is here .... Who supports impeachment? (Politico).
Some commentators and pundits were saying today that there will be no votes called to proceed with impeachment. That this entire inquiry is for show. I disagree. There is enormous momentum among Democrats to impeach President Trump and to see him criminally convicted and kicked out of office. As to why the frantic push now? I think many Democrats and their media allies were disturbed with what they have been seeing in the past two weeks. Their Democrat Presidential candidates are not creating the enthusiasm that they were hoping for, and President Trump's approval rating is now 6% higher than what President Obama's was at this time in his first term. The massive rally for President Trump in New Mexico attended mainly by Hispanics and the monster rally of 70,000 American-Indians in Houston on Sunday must have also been a shocker. Non-whites are the base of the Democrat Party, but they are now flocking to President Trump's rallies in numbers that I have never seen before .... and this is still 14 months away from the election. Considering what is at stake in next year's Presidential election .... future Supreme Court appointments, government's role in the economy, etc., I can understand why the prospect of a second term for President Trump must be unacceptable to these progressives. My prediction. It is going to get worse. The hysteria now is worse than what the hysteria was when President Trump took the oath of office in January 2017, and I fear that the crazies in our society may feel embolden to act. These are not normal times in Washington.
