Rep. Katie Porter is the first freshman House member from California to call for an impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
Porter is now only the second House Democrat from a Republican-leaning district to come out in support of starting an impeachment inquiry. The first was Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, a fellow freshman lawmaker.
Pelosi has long been against opening a formal impeachment inquiry, arguing that trying to impeach the president without overwhelming evidence and bipartisan support would be politically foolish. Skeptics of impeachment worry that a victory in the Democratic-controlled House could serve to only embolden Trump and galvanize his base, particularly since the GOP-controlled Senate isn’t expected to convict him and remove him from office.
Polls show that California voters are relatively in-line with Pelosi’s position. A recent Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for The Times found that only
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