With an increasing number of House Democrats and 2020 hopefuls calling for beginning impeachment proceedings — and now even a House Republican supporting impeachment — House Democrats are holding a closed-door meeting Wednesday to sort through the situation. What’s more, these assumptions about impeachment are largely based upon a sample size of one: Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the late 1990s. As I wrote a while back, the timeline of Clinton’s impeachment seemed to work against Republicans. Today, there is actually time for the impeachment proceedings to register with the American people. Impeachment proceedings could inflame and motivate that base.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 10:32 UTC