Impeachment

Axios - Resistance-minded House Democrats are pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President Trump now in anticipation of a Day 1 impeachment vote if they retake the House, Axios' Andrew Solender writes from the Capitol. The mere existence of this movement shows how much pressure Dem lawmakers will face next January if they retake the House and/or Senate.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios the party should "build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we've created the conditions ... we've done the fact-checking, we've done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to impeach" Trump.  Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) told Axios that if Democrats recapture the House, as history says is likely, "the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming."  More