Conversations with more than a dozen Democrats involved in this fast-moving internal debate paint a picture of a party out of power divided between wanting to show voters they are fighting Trump and not wanting to be viewed as chasing performative exercises in futility.
“If you’re expecting an immediate vote on this or whatever, that’s probably not going to happen,” says Rep. John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat who on Monday introduced his own articles of impeachment against the Republican President, acknowledging the limited appetite in his party to move quickly on the issue. If Democratic Leaders “take away all our tools,” he adds, “how do you break through to frustrated people?”
Both paths—impeachment or the 25th Amendment—are, to the mind of party Leadership, a distraction from their planned midterm campaign focused on high costs and unchecked corruption.
“I don’t want to get out ahead of that discussion,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday when asked about the impeachment rumblings, adding that if Democrats choose that path, “we want to be able to do it in an informed way.”
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