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Will impeachment moving forward help or hurt the democratic party

                                                                       


Turner Chang
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In congress there are many members who are working towards the impeachment of President Trump and many people might be wonder what does it take to get through the impeachment process. This has made some members of the democratic party worried that further pursuing the impeachment of President Trump could be detrimental to them in 2020. Many of the more moderate democrats  oppose the idea of impeaching President Trump as they believe it will give the party a bad look as in many of reasons for impeachment have been so polarized where both sides of the aisle have said that certain information has exonerated him where the other side says it still incriminates him.

Not having all of the democrats wanting to impeach President Trump will make it almost impossible for anything like this to pass as you can see in t he info graphic below you need a majority in the house of representatives to even start the process. If democrats are able to get a majority in the house they would have a much harder time in the Senate as they would need to get a two thirds majority to pass.(Moebus)




Recently congressman Anthony Brindisi has talked to majority leader Nancy Pelosi about how the party is moving towards obsessing over the impeachment of President Trump over real policy issues that those who are in swing districts could lose in 2020 because the party did nothing to help people in these districts ,and only focused on impeachment.(Ferris) Nancy Pelosi is actively trying to fight against this as she knows that they do not have the required 218 votes to start the process and even if they did have the votes in the house where they have a majority the republicans have the majority in the senate that will make it impossible for things to move any further. This is why many democrats are wary of starting the impeachment process thinking that it will impend them in 2020 because of the impeachment taking the time that could have been used to create new legislation such as healthcare and infrastructure reform(Ferris).
 
From what we can see in POLITICO's pollings is that a majority of democrats want congress to move forward with impeachment. even with a majority of the democratic voter base wants to impeach President Trump around a quarter of the party does not want impeachment(Shepard). A quarter of the registered voter base not wanting impeachment can be very problematic for the party as those who are in favor of impeachment are more likely to be more loyal to the party. Those who oppose the impeachment are more likely to switch parties if they feel that the democratic party has more of a focus on impeachment rather than what the voter feels need to be changed in this country. With politics becoming so polarized in this modern day it can be difficult to see how impactful this decision by the party could be as you have different news sources depending on their affiliations promoting or demoting the efforts of congress in the Impeachment of Donald Trump.








Works Cited
Moebus, Fabian, and Felix Richter. “Infographic: What an Impeachment Would Look Like.” Statista 
Infographics, www.statista.com/chart/9675/what-an-impeachment-would-look-like/.

Ferris, Sarah. “Moderate Democrats Warn Pelosi of Impeachment Obsession.” POLITICO, 15 Sept. 2019, www.politico.com/story/2019/09/15/moderate-democrats-pelosi-impeachment-1495832.

Shepard, Steven. “Poll: Voters Largely Unswayed by House Dems' Push for Impeachment.” POLITICO, 18 Sept. 2019, www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/house-democrats-trump-impeachment-poll-1500741.

Comments

  1. Ciarra BerrierSeptember 25, 2019 at 9:17 AM

    Turner Chang,
    Thank you for your post and your insight about the current impeachment topic that seems to be the top news for every media source. I appreciate the image you included about the process of impeachment, as before this blog post, I had no idea how the process of impeachment worked. That image really helped pull your post together and give better perspective to your readers. However, I do wish you gave more detail about the democrat members who do not agree or want the impeachment. Besides the idea that pushing for the impeachment might hurt the party in the 2020 elections, why else would members of the democratic party not want an impeachment process only a year before the next presidential elections? Is it cost? Do they have other priorities?
    Again thank you for the post as it was informative about the impeachment process and not the 'why impeach."

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  2. Conner HendrickSeptember 25, 2019 at 6:15 PM

    Turner, this was a great post! I really like hearing about everyone's perspective when it comes to the topic of impeachment. Before the past few days, I absolutely would have agreed that it was unlikely that moderate democrats would support impeachment. Now that the discussion of impeachment has changed, as a result of some new information coming to light, I will be interested to see where this goes. I wonder why some moderate democrats opposed impeachment before, as there was clear evidence of obstruction in the Mueller Report. Maybe that information wasn't clearly understood in the eye of the public.

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