Rashida Tlaib repeated her calls to impeach President Trump while responding to his tweet last week telling several liberal lawmakers to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Tlaib spoke at the NAACP Annual Convention in Detroit on Monday. The Michigan representative is one of the four Democratic freshmen lawmakers in the “squad,” whose feud with the president reached a high point last week after his tweet.
The situation escalated when the crowd of supporters at Trump’s North Carolina rally on Wednesday began chanting “send her back” as the president launched into criticisms of Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, another member of the squad. The chant lit another media firestorm around Trump and renewed accusations of racism and xenophobia.
“I ain’t going nowhere, not until I impeach this president,” Tlaib said as she walked on stage to deliver a speech to the NAACP.
“Yeah, I’m not going nowhere! Not until I impeach this president,” Rep. Tlaib says as she takes the stage at the NAACP convention in Detroit. pic.twitter.com/2OqfxzwUwM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 22, 2019
Impeaching a sitting president requires the votes of two-thirds of House members. A motion to impeach also requires the support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who controls what legislation reaches the House floor. Pelosi has continued to resist calls by the more progressive members of her caucus to support Trump’s impeachment.
Earlier this year, Tlaib made headlines with her call to “impeach the motherf—er,” referring to Trump.
Later in her speech Monday, Tlaib called for a new wave of civil rights activists from marginalized communities to run for office and change laws from positions of power.
“We must get back to the original view of the Civil Rights act and ensure that all marginalized communities have the protection that they need under the law to combat discrimination, both in the private and the public sector,” Tlaib said. “We need bold action folks, and I know what’s happening out there. You know, there’s all these young women, and it’s beyond just the four of us, ‘the Squad’ is all of you. And I can tell you – you are all ‘the Squad.'”
