Meet Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Collin Peterson, Democrats who won Trump districts in 2018.
Two Democrats broke from party ranks Thursday—Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Collin Peterson —to vote against the House resolution that formally authorizes an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
"The odds are if you really look at it objectively: He'll be impeached here, they'll then go to the Senate, he'll be vindicated," Van Drew told."So, he will still be the president and he will be able to go around and say, 'I have been vindicated because I was not impeached.'" Democrats have countered these steps are normal in the initial portion of impeachment proceedings, and that holding a vote to open an inquiry is not needed.
The impeachment inquiry has been spearheaded by Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff , who Republicans have accused of breaking House rules by operating the initial steps of the inquiry in secrecy in a secure room within the Capitol building's basement. As a form of rebuke and an effort that Trump likely viewed favorably, dozens of GOP members stormed the room earlier this month and temporarily shut down a witness interview.
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