"If they take the House, he wins big": Trump loyalists see upside in impeachment

While Trump supporters around Washington acknowledge that the idea is merely in the conversation stage — and stress it’s too early for contingency plans, particularly any involving the president — some have come to see losing the House as inevitable, and they want to see the president spend his time campaigning hard to keep the Senate.

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Proponents of the go-for-broke scenario argue that Trump’s at his best when his back is against the wall, and that a move to impeach would both rally the base and make the president sympathetic to moderate voters. Some scoff at the notion that there’s anything for Trump to fear from Democratic investigators on Capitol Hill, especially given the threat he’s already facing from special counsel Robert Mueller, and suggested that the House doesn’t matter as long as Republicans retain the Senate.

It dovetails with the growing conviction in Republican circles that the president could use congressional gridlock under a Democratic House majority as a personal battering ram, offering it up as the picture of Washington intransigence as he vies for reelection — rather than having to answer for the ongoing inability of a slim and fractious Republican majority to move a comprehensive agenda through the Hill.

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