Some Dems are already starting to prep for their top push on Day 1 if they win in the midterms: Impeach Trump

A handful of House Democrats want their colleagues to begin pushing a case against President Donald Trump so that they could impeach him on the first day of the next Congress if Democrats take back the House of Representatives, Axios reported.

The push mainly comes from progressive Democrats such as Reps Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), who said that Democratic leadership needs to have a “a very concrete, coordinated strategy.”

She added that Democrats need to “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].” Ramirez said that Republicans began plans to impeach Biden Administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2022, before they retook the House.

“Not that I'm saying I want to copy Republicans, but ... starting this work in January is too late,” she said.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz) said that “the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming.” Ansari has already called for the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In addition, Democrats who face contested primaries have pushed for impeachment.

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Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), 78, faces a member-on-member primary against Rep. Christian Menefee after redistricting. When Green forced a vote on impeaching Trump in June, only 78 Democrats supported it. But when he forced another vote in December, the number grew to 140.

In the same token, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), who was running in the Democratic primary for Senate, filed impeachment articles against former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Kelly later lost the primary to Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton.

The same goes for Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan, who faces a primary from state Rep. Donavan McKinney.

“We have a case — a very strong case — so we should really work on it now,” he said.

But many more moderate Democrats said they do not want to rush to impeach Trump. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), the chairman of the New Democrat Coalition, told Axios that Trump “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.”

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Trump was impeached twice during his first presidency, but was not removed from office by the Senate.

Another House Democrat who has called for impeachment publicly said “There are things that we can win, and impeachment is not one of them — now or, unfortunately, at any point during this presidency.”

And Republicans have used the fact that Democrats would impeach Trump as an impetus to get their voters to turn out in the midterm.

“If we lose the House majority, the radical left, as you've already heard, is going to impeach President Trump, and they will create complete chaos,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in December at a Turning Point USA event. “We cannot allow that to happen.”

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