As Democratic support for an impeachment inquiry grows, so does the pressure on Nancy Pelosi
the thinking is that “impeachment will be a problem for Democratic candidates—not everywhere, but in districts that are in the middle.” In other words, the House seats Democrats flipped in 2018 and the Senate seats they are targeting in 2020.launching an inquiry would pose a greater danger.
“I’m not going to stop fighting for these good bills just because I know I have a Senate sitting on their hands. I won’t do it. We must do our job and let the American people judge a Senate that sits on their hands and lets these bills die,” Dean explained. “I compare that analogously to our oversight obligation. If I just judged my duty as ‘Well, it’s never going to go anywhere in the Senate,’ I think I would be abdicating my role.
As Democratic support for an impeachment inquiry grows, so does the pressure on Pelosi. For now, even advocates of the move are largely signaling their continued support for the speaker and her stance. “They have to be like a quarterback. They have to have the ability to see the entire field and understand how one action affects everybody on that field, right?…That’s what we elected them for too, to look at the entire field,” Congresswomansaid of the House Speaker.
Pelosi is the key—and the biggest mystery. “I don’t know what will ever get Nancy. I just don’t know. I don’t know who’s got her ear. Somebody’s got her ear, and whoever’s got her ear is telling her that it’s not a good thing…I respect her,” Cohen continued. “But the only way we’re going to know is he’s either impeached or he’s not impeached, and you see what happens in November of 2020.”
Meanwhile, everyone in Congress hears the clock ticking. “I do think the closer we get to primaries, really the worse that it looks for us to open up an inquiry,” Escobar told me. “I would say it needs to happen this calendar year.”
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