Only 21% of new House Democrats ready to impeach Trump

According to a Power Up analysis of statements made during the campaign by the 52 Democrats who won election to the House this year, only 11 — or 21 percent — have said they want to immediately move to impeach President Trump. Thirteen Democratic freshmen outright oppose impeachment and the largest number — 17 Democrats or 33 percent — said they wanted to see Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether Trump officials had links to the Kremlin before deciding whether to move ahead on impeaching the president. We couldn’t find a record in news reports of 11 more Democrats commenting on the issue.

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Democrats’ conflicting views on the “I word” are likely to cause major headaches for the new Democratic House leadership. Speaker hopeful Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said before the elections she wouldn’t charge ahead with impeachment before Mueller delivers his report — and even then such a move would have to be bipartisan. Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose committee would spearhead hearings, said Sunday that Democrats were “far from” impeachment proceedings at the moment.

Pelosi has been “pretty clear that Democrats top priority is advancing legislation connected to our ‘For the People’ agenda and that impeachment would depend on the facts,” Pelosi’s communications director Ashley Etienne wrote us in an email.

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