House vote locks in impeachment as issue in '20 Hill races

The day after nearly every House Democrat voted to impeach President Donald Trump, the chief of the House Republican campaign committee said the political fallout was clear.

"Last night their obsession with impeachment finally came to a head, and they basically ended their majority," Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer said Thursday.

"Max Rose is done," he continued, listing him among freshmen Democrats from districts Trump captured in 2016 who he said won't survive next November's elections.

The feisty Rose, a Brooklyn native and Afghanistan combat veteran with an advanced degree from the London School of Economics, sees things differently.

"Mark my words, okay?" said Rose, whose Staten Island-centered district was the only one Trump won in New York City.

"We are going to beat them by such a wide margin that next time around, they won't even talk like this again, okay?"
"This is an attack on Democracy," blared one Trump campaign fundraising email that included a thank you from "Donald J Trump, President of the United States."
It added, "An attack on freedom. An attack on everything we hold dear in this country. And it's an attack on YOU."
"Over and over and over again, we're putting government back on the side of people who've been working their hearts out and been ignored."