Washington • Talk among House Democrats of impeaching President Donald Trump has sharply escalated amid the dispute over Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
While many House Democrats from safe seats have been calling to impeach Trump for months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been reluctant lest such a move endanger members from moderate districts — including newly elected Democrats who won previously Republican seats in the 2018 midterm.
But the Trump-Ukraine affair — including the Trump administration’s refusal to share with Congress a whistleblower complaint about the matter — may be shifting that calculus.