Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada on Friday became the first Republican member of the House to back the rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry — but he said he was reserving judgment on whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.
Amodei, 61, a four-term congressman from Carson City, is the chairman of Trump’s re-election campaign in Nevada, a swing state that the president lost by 27,000 votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He said it made sense for Congress to investigate a whistleblower’s complaint, made public Thursday, that Trump used a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president to advance his personal interests, including asking him to look into unsubstantiated allegations of corruption against former Vice President Joe Biden and his younger son.