Democrats take Trump impeachment case to voters
By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 09/29/19 06:00 AM EDT
Democrats dove head first into an impeachment inquiry this past week. Now they have to convince voters it was the right call.
With the Ukraine controversy, Democrats think they have a clear-cut case that the public can digest much more easily than the 22-month Russia investigation that resulted in a 448-page report by former special counsel Robert Mueller.
They argue that this time around it’s about President Trump, not candidate Trump. And they say it’s unfolding in “real time,†creating more urgency with a focus on 2020 election interference instead of looking back at the 2016 contest.
“It’s explainable: It’s betrayal. People can understand betrayal, engaging with a foreign power to interfere in our democracy,†Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a vulnerable freshman who signed onto the impeachment push on Monday, told The Hill.
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