Article snippet: VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Representative Elaine Luria’s decision to support an impeachment inquiry into President Trump wasn’t just about his political future. It also put hers on the line. She is a moderate Democrat who last year narrowly won the congressional seat for southeastern Virginia, a district dominated by the largest Navy base and carried by Trump in 2016. Supporting an impeachment effort could seriously endanger her reelection and she had for months declined to do so. But she was finally persuaded to join many of her Democratic colleagues last week by the allegations that Trump had asked the leader of Ukraine to investigate a political rival. And in her first large-scale encounter with constituents since joining them, Luria was greeted with more support than opposition in a district that Republicans are expected to target next year — particularly after her decision. “I didn’t go to Washington to impeach the president,” she told an audience of almost 300 at a town hall meeting in Virginia Beach Thursday night. “But I’d also say that I didn’t spend 20 years in uniform defending our country to watch something like this.” A Navy veteran who commanded a combat unit, the 44-year-old Luria said she felt she had to stay true to the oath she first took to protect the Constitution when entering the Naval Academy at 17 years old. Luria and six other moderate, first-term House Democrats with military and national intelligence backgrounds who won districts long held ... Link to the full article to read more