Article snippet: Both Democrats and Republicans are digging in for what promises to be the biggest political battle in a generation. The House impeachment probe resolution, which passed in a 232-196 party-line vote, was the first of many public fights that are likely to extend in 2020. It was also a clear indication that the next phase of the impeachment process — taking place in public hearings, before the television cameras — will be a highly partisan affair. Over the past five weeks, the probe has primarily been shaped by closed-door testimony from several officials who have raised serious questions about whether MORE and his inner circle withheld nearly $400 million in security aid for Ukraine in order to pressure Kiev to investigate Trump’s political rivals. "So far, we've seen damning evidence that the president abused his power and jeopardized our national security to help his own political fortunes,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman MORE (D-N.Y.), one of three Democrats leading the impeachment probe, said Thursday after the vote. Trump “pressed for another round of foreign interference in an American election. It's what the framers feared the most,” Engel added. Only two Democrats — Reps. Jefferson Van Drew (N.J.) and MORE (Minn.) — voted against the resolution, a relatively small number of defections considering the nasty, intraparty battle that played out for most of the year over whether Democrats should go down the impeachment path so close to 2020. House Mino... Link to the full article to read more