Most of the Democratic candidates still haven’t weighed in on impeachment. But the few who have don’t all share the same view.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is running as a Democrat in 2020, cautioned Monday that focusing on impeaching Trump might only help him.
If “we’re not talking about health care, we’re not talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage, and we’re not talking about combating climate change and we’re not talking about sexism and racism and homophobia and the issues that concern ordinary Americans, what I worry about is that works to Trump’s advantage,” Sanders said.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, another presidential candidate, said Tuesday in an NPR interview that Democrats should only make their decision on impeachment after viewing the full, unredacted Mueller report — and after Mueller himself testifies before Congress.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., took a similar stance. “Having read parts of the report, I believe there is a basis for obstruction of justice and to proceed to impeachment proceedings based on what we know,” she said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “But I would like to have the rest of the report fully known before we proceed.”
Democratic leaders in the House have shown reluctance toward impeachment, as well.
In a Monday evening conference call with Democratic leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said that Trump could be investigated without taking such drastic steps. “We don’t have to go to articles of impeachment to obtain the facts, the presentation of facts,” Pelosi said, according to NBC News.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was more dismissive. “Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point,” the No. 2 Democrat in the House told CNN the same day that Mueller’s report was made public.
“Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgment,” Hoyer added.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., whose committee holds the authority to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump, said that some of the accusations in the Mueller report relating to obstruction would be impeachable “if proven.”
Nadler issued a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report and its underlying evidence Friday.
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