Democrats try to dodge Trump impeachment talk: ‘Stupid politics’

The idea of impeaching President Donald Trump is gaining steam among select Democrats in Congress but is an unwelcome development for many colleagues who’d rather avoid the subject altogether.

It’s familiar territory for a party that twice impeached Trump in his first term but is now an unfathomable scenario in a Republican-controlled Congress, one that could backfire for Democrats looking to claw their way back to power in the midterm elections.

“We’re going to win elections,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who clinched a battleground win in November in a state lost by former Vice President Kamala Harris, told the Washington Examiner. “We’re not playing those stupid politics. Next question.”

His colleagues, such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), had little interest in speaking about the first impeachment articles of Trump’s second term, filed Monday by Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI). Democrats’ apprehension or outright dismissal of returning to impeachment just 100 days into another Trump presidency presented a clear warning that even progressives fear it could alienate voters on the heels of major election losses.