Democrats face voters clamoring for impeachment
House Democrats are hearing more calls from their constituents back home to move forward on impeaching President Trump, adding to the pressure as they return to Washington this week.
While many Democrats have long insisted that voters at town halls would rather talk about kitchen table issues than special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, that began to change this week as the number of lawmakers endorsing impeachment climbed to at least 50.
The pressure began to extend to some swing districts, where constituents pressed Democratic members such as Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.) and Donna Shalala (Fla.) to move ahead with impeachment proceedings.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a Judiciary Committee member who backs launching an impeachment inquiry, said the widespread support from her constituents at a Wednesday town hall "is a shift" from even a month ago.
House Democrats' district town halls during the Memorial Day recess came as Mueller made his first public appearance to reiterate the findings in his report about Russia's election interference and Trump’s efforts to obstruct the investigation. More than a dozen Democrats subsequently jumped on the impeachment train, citing Mueller’s assertion that “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
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