Article snippet: Slotkin—along with six other key freshman House Members with national security backgrounds like Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Elaine Luria (D-VA)—co-authored a Washington Post op-ed this week backing an impeachment inquiry that most likely was the tipping point in convincing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and many other Democrats on the fence to back the start of the impeachment process. When asked on CNN on Thursday if she worried that Democrats “might not be able to pull enough Americans along,” on the impeachment question, she acknowledged that Democrats have not always been clear or strategic when it comes to messaging on important issues, which has gotten voters confused because “there’s a lot of different thing happening at the same time.” “It is the job of the U.S. Congress to be really clear and strategic and efficient with how we handle this process,” Slotkin said. She said she was “pretty reticent” to jump into anything dealing with impeachment before the revelations about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky. The Michigan Democrat said the impeachment process is a “huge deal” and a “somber deal” and said Trump “crossed a threshold” that, as a former national security professional, compelled her to back an impeachment inquiry as a prospective measure to protect the integrity of the 2020 election. Slotkin said she didn’t want Trump to set a precedent that enables a “future Democratic president” to ask China or Nort... Link to the full article to read more