BREAKING: 218 lawmakers – a majority of House members – now support some type of impeachment action against President Trump, according to an NBC News tally.
The different terms the lawmakers are using to discuss the issue make it unclear how they will vote if articles of impeachment were to go before the full House. The Democratic holdouts, meanwhile, include several of those in competitive districts — some who flipped seats last year.
Until recently, less than half of the 235-member Democratic Caucus said they favored taking impeachment action against the president, and Pelosi had tamped down efforts to launch a formal impeachment push, dismissing it as too divisive.
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