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A cohort of like-minded Democrats in the US House of Representatives is already looking ahead to 2027, quietly laying the groundwork for a potential impeachment push against President Donald Trump if they win back the House.
Lawmakers in this camp want party leadership to start building a detailed case now, so that if Democrats regain control, they can move quickly, reports Axios.
“We need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy,” said Delia Ramirez, arguing that groundwork like fact-finding, shadow hearings and internal coordination shouldn’t wait until after an election. “Starting this work in January is too late.”
The Illinois Democrat said the party should “build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we’ve created the conditions … we’ve done the fact-checking, we’ve done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to impeach [Trump].”
According to Rep. Yassamin Ansari, should the Democrats recapture the House “the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming.”
There has been a large shift in public opinion, as a recent poll by Verasight on Tuesday found that 55% of respondents support an impeachment vote, while only 37% are opposed, marking a sharp turn from just over a year ago, when impeachment talk was largely dismissed within the party.
“People ridiculed me,” said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.
When Rep. Al Green forced a vote on impeaching Trump last June, 128 Democrats voted with Republicans to quash the effort while just 78 voted to advance it.
However, things have changed drastically since then, as when Green forced another vote to impeach Trump last December, his support nearly doubled, going from 78 Democrats to 140.
Despite this change, there is still much hesitation inside the party, with lawmakers pointing the biggest hurdle to this goal; conviction in the Senate would require a two-thirds majority, a threshold that is notoriously hard to reach, and has derailed all previous impeachment efforts.
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) said Trump has “done something in this Congress that justifies the conversation, but we’ve already seen twice unless you’re going to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate … the president will not be removed from office.”
Schneider, the chair of the center-left New Democrat coalition, said he is “going to work on strengthening American security, making lives better for the American people and moving the country forward.”
A House Democrat who has strongly advocated for impeachment in public said on the condition of anonymity that “there are things that we can win, and impeachment is not one of them — now or unfortunately, at any point during this presidency.”
Still, advocates argue that waiting carries its own risks. They point to how Republicans began building their case against former officials well before regaining power, suggesting Democrats should take a similar approach.
Thanedar, who introduced impeachment articles earlier, said simply “We have a case — a very strong case — so we should really work on it now.”
