Will Donald Trump Be Impeached? Democrats Making Fresh Push Amid Growing Support

A group of House Democrats has joined hands to introduce new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump which will be presented in front of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

Citing the president’s inadequate response to the deadly white supremacist marches in Charlottesville, the office of Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) announced in August that he will be joining the official campaign to remove the president from office. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), who has made his disapproval of Trump known in public, will also join Cohen in his efforts.

“It is clear to us that he is unfit to be president of the United States of America,” Gutiérrez said earlier this month, the Hill reported. Reps. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and Al Green (D-Texas) will also be joining the lawmakers in their bid to impeach Trump. Sherman has even listed reasons such as the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and possible ties between the members of Trump administration and Russia as grounds for supporting the impeachment articles.

However, it is not yet clear exactly how many Democrats will end up supporting the motion of impeachment or what grounds will be drawn up in the articles in question, against the president.

Support for the president’s removal has been growing among the masses as two recent polls suggested that almost 50 percent of Americans are in favor of the president being impeached. According to a poll released by Public Policy Polling on Oct. 31, 49 percent of the people said that they would back the motion of Trump’s impeachment. Another poll, conducted by Politico and Morning Consult, put the number of people supporting his impeachment at 40 percent.

However, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), even if Democrats successfully remove Trump from office, it would empower Vice President Mike Pence to take the reins of the presidency which would not make a drastic difference to the policy-making process as seen under the current leader.

Ever since Pence has become the vice president, he has supported bills which discriminate against the transgender members of the military, repeal the Johnson Amendment that would result in weakening the separation between church and state, defund Planned Parenthood, catering to coal companies (which funded Pence’s political campaign in 2016) by withdrawing support from Clean Power Plan, limiting women’s access to contraception, and appointing Neil Gorsuch, a religious extremist on the U.S. Supreme Court, the Huffington Post reported.

On the flip side, Raskin also added that having Pence instead of Trump in the Oval Office would not be completely unbeneficial. Pence is not known to be as active on the social media, especially when it comes to publicly attacking his enemies, as Trump. Hence, on the flip side, if Trump does get impeached and Pence becomes the next POTUS, people can be assured that the tirades of insults tweeted by Trump against North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un, would cease, which has nothing except escalate the threat of nuclear war between the two rival nations.