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Source: Politico
A day before the House Judiciary Committee took its biggest step yet toward impeachment last week, moderate Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi voiced his frustrations directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The battleground freshman told Pelosi and other leaders at a closed-door meeting that he and other centrists feared that talk of impeaching President Donald Trump was threatening to swamp the Democratic agenda, according to multiple people in the room.
Its very frustrating for me someone coming from a district that was one of the districts that helped get us into the majority having so much focus on things like impeachment or other issues that are divisive, Brindisi said in an interview, adding that hes been talking to fellow swing-district freshmen who have similar concerns with the fall agenda. We should be focusing on the kitchen table issues.
In the same meeting, another moderate in the room, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), pointed to alarming polling from the Democrats campaign arm, which showed that voters think the party is prioritizing impeachment over other issues, according to an internal summary obtained by POLITICO.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/15/moderate-democrats-pelosi-impeachment-1495832