Article snippet: WASHINGTON — The day after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited testimony, four more House members — including Massachusetts Representatives Katherine Clark and Lori Trahan — came out in favor of launching an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, despite resistance from party leaders. Their announcements brought to nearly 100 the number of House Democrats who want to start impeachment proceedings. But that is still a minority of the 235 House Democrats. The math means that, as lawmakers left Washington Thursday for a six-week recess, Mueller’s underwhelming performance had changed some lawmakers’ minds but had yet to produce the surge in support that many liberals hoped it would. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many of her deputies have been resisting calls for impeachment out of fear that it will backfire politically given lukewarm public support and near solid Republican opposition. “We do need to be realistic, and that is, the only way he’s leaving office, at least at this point, is by being voted out, and I think our efforts need to be made in every respect to make sure we turn out our people,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, a close Pelosi ally, told CNN on Thursday. “Should we put the country through an impeachment? I haven’t been convinced yet that we should.” The last hope for House Democrats pushing impeachment could be a groundswell of support from voters back home. Representative Eric Swalwell of California p... Link to the full article to read more
4 more House Democrats — 2 from Mass. — now back impeachment - The Boston Globe
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