WASHINGTON, D. C. USA:  Grumbling mars President Donald Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON, D. C.: House Democrats are charging toward impeaching President Donald Trump but not without pockets of division, as lawmakers who began the summer divided largely rallied Thursday behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s cry that his actions leave them “no choice but to act.”

The California Democrat’s announcement that she was asking committee heads to begin crafting articles of impeachment hardly staunched grumbling that the effort was risky for swing district lawmakers, whose 2018 victories gave the party House control.

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But the strong consensus among Democrats was that the time had come to plunge forward.

“‘There’s certainly some anxiety among the more vulnerable members about how this cuts, but a broad acceptance that this moment has found us,” said California Rep. Jared Huffman, a Democrat. “It’s not something we could avoid.” That’s not to say there weren’t dissidents.

Freshman Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew, an impeachment skeptic all year, said he remained opposed to the effort unless new evidence emerged.

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He said should the Democratic-led House vote to impeach Trump — effectively charge him with offenses, which seems all but certain — the Republican-controlled Senate would refuse to oust him from office.

That will let Trump claim vindication and result in “tearing the country apart,” said Van Drew, a freshman, whose southern New Jersey district narrowly favored Trump in 2016.

“People are going to be angry at each other. I mean constituents,” said Van Drew, who is one of his party’s more endangered lawmakers in next November’s elections.

Also keeping his distance was New York Rep. Max Rose, another freshman whose Staten Island-centered district backed Trump in 2016 and who won his own seat by a thin margin” last year.

”I’m uncomfortable until I see the articles” of impeachment, said Rose, referring to the formal charges that House Democrats will craft in coming days.

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“That’s the most important things. When you can see the articles, that’s when one can entertain whether one’s comfortable or not.”

Republicans were already playing offense on an issue their leaders say will help them gain congressional seats in next November’s voting.

Trump 2020 presidential campaign manager Brad Pascale tweeted what he said was internal Republican polling data showing that the impeachment drive was hurting the reelection prospects of freshman Oklahoma Rep. Kendra Horn, who won a seat in that deeply red seat last year.

‘’Say goodbye to your majority, Nancy!’” he tweeted, promising he’d release figures on other vulnerable candidates soon.

AP / ByAssociated Press

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