Article snippet: Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) announced Friday that he will vote for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Rep. Rose, a swing district Democrat, compared Trump’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to an “invitation to the enemies of the United States to come after any citizen.” The New York Democrat said in a statement Friday: Rep. Rose’s support for the impeachment inquiry has enflamed controversy in the past. Rep. Rose in October said that, in an inverted sense of the American justice system, President Trump should “prove” his innocence of the impeachment charges Democrats levied against him. New York’s 11th Congressional District, which Rep. Rose represents, is one of the 13 congressional districts that President Trump won by more than six percentage points during the 2016 presidential election and that House Democrats managed to flip during the 2018 midterm elections. Nicole Malliotakis, New York state assemblywoman and Republican congressional candidate for the 11th Congressional District, said that New Yorkers will unseat Rep. Rose in the 2020 elections. She said: Then-candidate Rose defeated incumbent Rep. Daniel Donovan (R-NY) by roughly six points. Rep. Rose in November disputed the idea his district is a Trump district. “My district is not a Donald Trump district, just like my district is not a Max Rose district. What it is, is — it’s a patriotic district,” he said. Rep. Rose said that he has continued to repres... Link to the full article to read more