'I made this decision out of principle...and I will stick to that regardless of what it does to me politically.' Dem. Rep. Slotkin explains decision to support impeachment during tense and raucous town hall in her district, which Pres. Trump won in 2016.
Protesters yell from the back of the room as U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., holds a constituent community conversation at Oakland University, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, in Rochester, Mich. Slotkin, a freshman Democrat who flipped a battleground Republican seat, said Monday she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
“To me, this was an issue of principle,” said Slotkin, who worked in U.S. intelligence, national security and defense during the Obama and Bush administrations. She said she made her decision “out of a duty to protect and defend the Constitution. I feel that in my bones, and I will stick to that regardless of what it does to me politically."
Slotkin said she came to her decision “very reluctantly” after having initially opposed impeachment until joining six other freshman Democrats with experience in national security to call for an inquiry in September. The House will vote Wednesday on the impeachment articles approved last week by the House Judiciary panel. The vote is all but certain to result in Trump's impeachment, though he is expected to be acquitted in a Senate trial.Srijid Sengupta, a 38-year-old from Troy, Michigan, who works in finance for an auto company, protested her decision and said after that he was disappointed she took no direct questions from the crowd.
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