Vulnerable Democrats explain why they finally decided to join the call to start the impeachment process
at town-hall meetings in his district but Kim refused to budge. Let the oversight committees do their work, he told his constituents. Yes, he saidthe process was moving too slowly and the White House was dragging it out, but the time wasn’t right.That changed on Tuesday. Before he got elected to Congress, Kim worked on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. His job included setting up calls with foreign leaders, and he sat in the Oval Office for some of those calls.
Why the sea change? What led wavering Democrats to change their minds so fast? The answers differ depending on the Democrat. For many, the allegations regarding Trump and Ukraine were shocking and rose above the political fray in a way the Mueller report’s findings did not. For others, the allegations raised grave constitutional and national-security questions, making the unimaginable all too real.
From there, it was a cascade of announcements by House Democrats calling for Trump’s impeachment. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher , who represents a battleground district outside Houston, said Trump’s “actions, which the President has admitted, represent a gross abuse of power and an abuse of the trust we the people have placed in the Office of the President.” Rep.
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