Rep. Kendra Horn of Oklahoma, a Democrat representing a heavily Republican district, will vote to impeach President Trump.
Horn and fellow first-term Democratic lawmaker Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced on Tuesday their intentions to back the two impeachment articles set to hit the House floor Wednesday for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in the Ukraine military aid affair.
Horn and Sherrill are among 31 freshmen in districts won by Trump in 2016.
“It is with a heavy heart but with clarity of conviction that I have made my decision. The oath I took to protect and defend the Constitution requires a vote for impeachment,” Horn, 43, said on Oklahoma Fox affiliate Fox 25.
Horn defeated Republican incumbent Steve Russell in 2018 by just over 1% of the vote. Trump won her district by 13.7%.
Sherrill, a Navy veteran and former federal prosecutor, said she concluded Trump had committed offenses warranting removal from office.
“I’ve reviewed the president’s own statements about his conduct and what he did, as well as statements of other people around him. And it became clear to me that he did, in fact, withhold critical military aid from a security partner in order to investigate or attempt to have a foreign power investigate an opponent of his,” Sherrill, 47, told reporters on Tuesday.
Sherrill won her race after Republican incumbent Rodney Frelinghuysen retired and defeated, with 56.7% of the vote, New Jersey Republican state Assemblyman Jay Webber for the open seat. Subsequently, she did not support Nancy Pelosi in the leader’s bid for speaker of the House.
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