Trump Team Bets Impeachment Will Backfire on Democrats

WASHINGTON—Faced with the prospect of impeachment, President Trump and his re-election campaign expressed confidence the effort to boot him from office would give an unlikely boost to his bid for a second term.

Mr. Trump’s strategy to convert his latest controversy into a political advantage has been to take the unprecedented step of declassifying—and releasing—a document detailing a private discussion with a foreign leader, corralling Republican allies to coordinate his defense and blasting out urgent fundraising emails and text messages seeking donations as a show of support.

Inside Trump campaign headquarters on Tuesday, aides nodded their heads in confidence, glued to more than a dozen wall-mounted televisions around the office as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said the chamber would begin an impeachment inquiry.