2020 Democratic presidential candidates on impeachment

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump (R) on September 24, 2019, following allegations that Trump requested the Ukrainian government investigate former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and his son, Hunter Biden, in exchange for aid.[1] Trump denied the allegations and called the inquiry "the worst witch hunt in political history."[2][3]

Since 2017, presidential candidates have been discussing whether or not Trump should be impeached. Most calls for impeachment began after the U.S. Department of Justice released special counsel Robert Mueller's report investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, coordination between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, and obstruction of justice.[4]

Mueller stated in the report that "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." He also wrote that the report neither concluded Trump had committed a crime nor exonerated him.[5] Trump said that the report did exonerate him.[6]

The 2020 presidential field was initially split on the issue, with some candidates urging impeachment proceedings begin as soon as possible, while others called for more caution or explicitly rejected impeachment proceedings.

As of October 2025, a majority of candidates support an impeachment inquiry.

The following 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have called for impeachment proceedings to begin:


The following 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have either offered conditional support for or opposed impeachment proceedings:


This page provides the following resources to help readers understand how this issue affects the 2020 presidential election:

Overview

The following table shows whether each candidate has explicitly called for impeachment proceedings to begin against Trump. It also shows whether that call came after the Mueller report was released on April 18, 2019, Mueller's press conference on the report on May 29, 2019, or allegations of an inappropriate conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

This chart was last updated September 29, 2019.

2020 Democratic presidential candidates on impeachment
Candidate Called for impeachment proceedings after Mueller report Called for impeachment proceedings after Mueller statement Called for impeachment proceedings after Ukraine allegations Has offered conditional support for or opposed impeachment proceedings
Michael Bennet
Joe Biden
Cory Booker
Steve Bullock
Pete Buttigieg
Julián Castro
John Delaney
Tulsi Gabbard
Kamala Harris
Amy Klobuchar
Wayne Messam
Beto O'Rourke
Tim Ryan
Bernie Sanders
Joe Sestak
Elizabeth Warren
Marianne Williamson
Andrew Yang


Withdrawn 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on impeachment
Candidate Called for impeachment proceedings after Mueller report Called for impeachment proceedings after Mueller statement Had not called for impeachment proceedings
Bill de Blasio
Kirsten Gillibrand
Mike Gravel
John Hickenlooper
Jay Inslee
Seth Moulton
Eric Swalwell


What are impeachment proceedings?

See also: Impeachment of federal officials

The United States Congress has the constitutional authority to impeach and remove a federal official from office—including the president—if he or she has committed an impeachable offense. Impeaching and removing an official has two stages. First, articles of impeachment against the official must be passed by a majority vote of the U.S. House of Representatives. Then, a trial is conducted in the United States Senate potentially leading to the conviction and removal of the official.[7]

In most impeachment trials, the vice president presides over the trial. However, in impeachment trials of the president, the chief justice of the United States presides. In order to remove the person from office, two-thirds of senators that are present to vote must vote to convict on the articles of impeachment.[7]

Process for impeachment and conviction

The following two charts show the process for impeachment, which begins in the U.S. House with the introduction of an impeachment resolution and a committee inquiry conducted by the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. If the committee adopts articles of impeachment against the official, the articles will go to a full floor vote in the U.S. House.

When articles of impeachment are adopted by the U.S. House, the process moves to the U.S. Senate where senators will either acquit or convict the official of the alleged crimes following a trial.

U.S. House

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U.S. Senate

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Which 2020 presidential candidates would be involved with impeachment proceedings?

This table provides an overview of how each sitting member of Congress running for president would be involved in impeachment proceedings if they were initiated.

Statements by candidate


Click on any candidate's name to see his or her statements on impeachment proceedings. If you are aware of statements that should be included, please email us.


Michael Bennet

See also: Michael Bennet presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "I support the decision to open an impeachment inquiry. As a member of the Senate Intel Committee, I will continue to exercise my role in conducting oversight and uncovering the facts."[8]
  • May 30, 2019: "I think Bob Mueller made it very clear Congress needs to do its job and I believe Congress needs to do its job. I read the Mueller report. I heard what Mueller said I believe President Trump has probably committed impeachable offenses, and I think Bob Mueller should come to Congress and testify."[9]
  • May 12, 2019: "I'm not ready to say the president should be impeached. ... I think it looks from the report as though he's committed impeachable offenses. I think there is every reason why the investigation in the Congress should continue and then we should make an assessment of where it leads."[10]

Joe Biden

See also: Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2020
  • October 9, 2019: "To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. ... Trump will do anything to get re-elected, including violating the most basic forms of democracy. It's stunning, and it's dangerous. ... No president in history has dared to engage in such unimaginable behavior."[11]
  • September 24, 2019: "The president should stop stonewalling this investigation and all the other investigations into his alleged wrongdoing. Using its full constitutional authority, Congress in my view should demand the information it has a legal right to receive. If the president does not comply with such a request of the Congress, if he continues to obstruct Congress, and flaunt the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment."[12]
  • June 4, 2019: "If the president does not soon start to cooperate with the legitimate investigations of the Congress, then, in fact, Congress has no option but to begin an impeachment inquiry. ... I’m not looking forward to an impeachment process, I think it will be a giant distraction on things that in fact we should be focusing on getting done."[13]
  • April 30, 2019: "There are elements of the report ... about seven or eight things that are left undone. He was not within his purview to investigate, he thought. The Congress is attempting to take that up and what the Congress should do, and what they are doing, is investigate that. And if in fact they block the investigation, they have no alternative but to go to the only other constitutional resort they have, which is impeachment."[14]

Cory Booker

See also: Cory Booker presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "The president took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Instead, his words and actions have served to undermine it, along with the very ideals of our nation. We as lawmakers have a responsibility to do the right thing — and today, I support Speaker Pelosi’s leadership and applaud her announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry. It’s our one remaining path to ensuring justice is served.”[15]
  • May 29, 2019: "This Administration has continued to stonewall Congress’s oversight. Beginning impeachment proceedings is the only path forward."[16]

Steve Bullock

See also: Steve Bullock presidential campaign, 2020
  • October 17, 2019: "I think we have to go forward. I think we have to go forward beyond an inquiry, that the House has to take action. Now it has to go to the Senate. At the end of the day, I don't know how the politics of this all sorted out, but this is bigger than politics. This is so much larger than politics."[17]
  • September 24, 2019: "Congress must swiftly investigate these allegations and demand the whistleblower report and any relevant transcripts of the President’s interactions with Ukrainian officials. If they don’t get it, I see no other option than starting impeachment proceedings."[18]
  • May 30, 2019: “I think we should have the full investigations ... oversight that’s occurring right now. I would much rather that be the focus … we have to see where these investigations [and] the oversight goes.”[19]
  • May 15, 2019: "I support Congress doing full investigations as they should. That's their job."[20]

Pete Buttigieg

See also: Pete Buttigieg presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "This is a moment of truth for the country. I think this is a moment of truth for the Republican Party. Sooner or later, it had to come, because any one of these abuses that we've seen, over recent years, any one of them could have been career-ending for any other president. The issue is they all came at once, and it shocked the system, the system couldn't figure out how to deal with it. Now, the system is kicking in. And the Constitution is kicking in. And there's going to be a process that leads to some kind of accountability on this."[21]
  • May 29, 2019: "This is as close to an impeachment referral as it gets. Robert Mueller could not clear the president, nor could he charge him — so he has handed the matter to Congress, which alone can act to deliver due process and accountability."[22]
  • April 22, 2019: "I think he's made it pretty clear that he deserves impeachment. But I'm also going to leave it to the House and the Senate to figure that out because my role in the process is trying to relegate Trumpism to the dustbin of history, and I think there's no more decisive way to do that—especially to get Republicans to abandon this kind of deal with the devil they made—than to have just an absolute thumping at the ballot box for what that represents."[23]

Julián Castro

See also: Julián Castro presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "I’ve called for opening an impeachment inquiry for some time. But this moment goes beyond Democrats versus Republicans, and the partisan politics of 2020. Normalizing this dangerous and illicit behavior sets a precedent for future presidents and Congresses. We are in a fight for our country and for our democracy. We are in a fight to respect the rule of law, to protect our nation’s interests, and to finally put an end to this madness. In order to preserve the sanctity of our Constitution and reassert our congressional authority over this corruption, impeachment is the only way forward.”[24]
  • May 29, 2019: "Mueller made clear this morning that his investigation now lays at the feet of Congress. No one is above the law—Congress should begin an impeachment inquiry."[25]
  • April 23, 2019: "[Congress is] going to have their congressional hearings and subpoena Bob Mueller, do more inquiry, but at the end of the day, I think the question you’re going to get to is: This president tried to obstruct justice, and should he be held accountable or not? And I believe that he should be held accountable."[26]

John Delaney

See also: John Delaney presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "Speaker Pelosi has exercised extremely good judgment on this question thus far, and I agree with her decision today to move forward with an official impeachment inquiry. She deserves our support."[27]
  • May 21, 2019: "It is time for principled Republicans to similarly take a stand and defend the Constitution, the institutions of government, the rule of law, and the norms of our society. If we continue to allow this President to be unchecked and manipulate the truth, we will forever alter our Democracy for the worse.”[28]
  • April 18, 2019: "The one conclusion that every American should reach from the Mueller report is that we are better than this. We deserve a President free on conflicts, conducting themselves with honor and integrity, and possessing a moral compass that guides their actions. We have to win in 2020."[29]

Tulsi Gabbard

See also: Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 27, 2019: "Up to this point, I have been opposed to pursuing impeachment because it will further divide our already badly divided country. However, after looking carefully at the transcript of the conversation with Ukraine’s President, the whistleblower complaint, the Inspector General memo, and President Trump’s comments about the issue, unfortunately, I believe that if we do not proceed with the inquiry, it will set a very dangerous precedent."[30]
  • September 24, 2019: "I believe that impeachment at this juncture would be terribly divisive for the country at a time when we are already extremely divided. The hyperpartisanship is one of the main things driving our country apart."[31]
  • April 21, 2019: "I don't think that we should defeat Donald Trump through impeachment. I think it's really important for us, in this country, to come together and have the American people vote to take Donald Trump out of office in 2020."[32]

Kamala Harris

See also: Kamala Harris presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "I’ve literally been carrying around a list of Donald Trump’s impeachable offenses. It’s long. Congress should stand up for the integrity of our democracy in this process and hold Donald Trump accountable."[33]
  • April 22, 2019: "I think we have very good reason to believe that there is an investigation that has been conducted which has produced evidence that tells us that this President and his administration engaged in obstruction of justice. I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment."[34]

Amy Klobuchar

See also: Amy Klobuchar presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "President said he’s releasing call transcript. Remember it’s the whistleblower complaint we must see. Not just one call. Complaint reportedly involves more. It isn’t legal to sell out your country for personal gain. As I’ve said before, House should open impeachment investigation."[35]
  • June 14, 2019: "I would support an impeachment proceeding beginning now. The President of the United States has said it: 'Come on, bring your dirt. We don't care how clean these elections are.' And they don't even care if it is hacked into."[36]
  • May 29, 2019: "As I have said before, impeachment proceedings are one way to investigate and hold this administration accountable if the White House keeps stonewalling."[37]

Wayne Messam

See also: Wayne Messam presidential campaign, 2020
  • April 22, 2019: "Based on what is available I believe the President should be placed under impeachment proceedings and let the weight of the full report carry out the justice the American people deserve."[38]

Beto O'Rourke

See also: Beto O'Rourke presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "We have a lawless president, who has undermined our democracy; a racist president, who has incited violence; a reckless president, who has let our planet burn and fleeced taxpayers for his own benefit. To my former colleagues in Congress: Finish the job and impeach him."[39]
  • May 4, 2019: "We're finally learning the truth about this president. And yes, there has to be consequences. Yes, there has to be accountability. Yes, I think there's enough evidence now for the House of Representatives to move forward with impeachment. This is our country, and this is the one chance that we get to ensure that it remains a democracy and that no man, regardless of his position, is above the law.”[40]

Tim Ryan

See also: Tim Ryan presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "Donald Trump showed us again that his true colors are more like a mob boss than a president. It’s time to impeach."[41]
  • June 2, 2019: "I know what [impeachment] is going to do to the country. I take no joy in this, at all. But I have a duty and responsibility and that duty and responsibility is led me to think we have to do this.”[42]
  • April 21, 2019: "Let the Judiciary Committee look at this. There's a process in place here. ... I think that's the natural next step, and let's see where that leaves."[43]

Bernie Sanders

See also: Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "Three months ago, I called for an impeachment inquiry by the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives into the actions and behavior of President Trump. I believed then and I believe now that in Donald Trump we have the most corrupt president in the modern history of this country."[44]
  • May 30, 2019: "I believe the Judiciary Committee should begin impeachment inquiries. That is inquiries, not impeachment, to determine whether or not Trump has committed impeachable offenses. This president is not above the law, no president is above the law. This president must be held accountable."[45]
  • April 23, 2019: "Here is my concern: At the end of the day, what is most important to me is to see that Donald Trump is not re-elected President and I intend to do everything I can to make sure that that doesn’t happen."[46]

Tom Steyer

See also: Tom Steyer presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "Two years ago, we began a movement to hold this lawless, criminal president accountable. We are finally at a watershed moment. The beginning of an official impeachment inquiry is the beginning of taking our democracy back."[47]

Elizabeth Warren

See also: Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "No one is above the law—not even the president of the United States. Congress has the constitutional authority and responsibility to hold the president accountable. This is not about politics, this is about principle. We must begin impeachment proceedings."[48]
  • April 19, 2019: "To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways. The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States."[49]

Marianne Williamson

See also: Marianne Williamson presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "I have decided that impeachment is the only responsible way that we, as citizens, can take a stand against the president’s egregious overreach and careless use of the powers of the presidency."[50]
  • May 30, 2019: "Really rich when candidates talk about impeachment as though 'This is about doing the right thing and politics should have nothing to do with it!' You do realize their even saying that has everything to do with politics, right?"[51]
  • April 14, 2019: "Do I feel that he has committed impeachable offenses? Absolutely. I think this president clearly has fascist leanings, and I think that all of us, conservatives as well as liberals, need to stop pretending that this isn’t true. So there are many things about the president behavior, his policies and so forth I would consider impeachable offenses. ... That’s a very different question than whether or not he should be impeached given the fact that as long as the Republicans, which they are and will be for the next two years, are in charge of the Senate, they wouldn’t remove him anyway. So I leave that to [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi. I think she’s got it together on this and I’m sure she understands the quandary very well."[52]

Andrew Yang

See also: Andrew Yang presidential campaign, 2020
  • September 24, 2019: "Given the President’s latest actions I think impeachment is the right path forward. Asking foreign leaders for political help in return for aid and then suppressing your own agency’s inquiry is egregious. There have to be limits and Congress is right to act."[53]
  • June 1, 2019: "The desire to impeach Trump is understandable - but the fact is impeachment is almost certain to fail in the GOP Senate which would require 67 senators to approve. Unless a bunch of GOP Senators decide to get on board it will fail, rally the GOP base and play into Trump’s hands."[54]
  • April 18, 2019: "I am glad that the Mueller Report has been made public. It’s important to the American people. My focus is on beating Donald Trump at the ballot box and solving the problems that got him elected in the first place."[55]

Withdrawn candidates

Bill de Blasio

See also: Bill de Blasio presidential campaign, 2020
  • June 14, 2019: "What he said was openly treasonous. It was an invitation to hostile foreign governments to find information on American leaders and give it to Donald Trump to help Donald Trump."[56]
  • May 26, 2019: "I think we should continue the investigations in the Congress, aggressively looking for the facts, more evidence. ... I don't hear Democrats talking about the issues of concern to everyday Americans enough right now. I hear a lot of focus and a lot of talk on investigations. And that's obviously important, and I believe they will eventually lead to impeachment."[57]
  • April 19, 2019: "I think, you know, this president has been the most reckless, dangerous president we’ve ever had, but that’s a different question than whether we have at this moment on the table the specific grounds to achieve impeachment and whether we have something that’s going to get through the United States Senate, held by Republicans, and so I’m just trying to get to a real world place and I actually think most Democrats and progressives want to have the honest, realistic conversation – that yes, pursue every avenue, and there could come out new facts that then would make impeachment a much more realistic and immediate option. But today it does not exist."[58]

Kirsten Gillibrand

See also: Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaign, 2020
  • May 30, 2019: "In light of what Mueller said yesterday, I really believe now we need to start the impeachment hearings because we need the authority to get that testimony and to get the facts, so that we can make a more informed decision."[59]
  • April 23, 2019: "I think it’s important to keep that on the table. I think we need a process. What I’m looking for is an unredacted version of the report. I’m looking for testimony from Robert Mueller as well as McGahn and the attorney general. I think it’s really important that the American people get the truth and get all the facts."[60]

Mike Gravel

See also: Mike Gravel presidential campaign, 2020
  • April 19, 2019: "Donald Trump - like George Bush before him - should have been impeached and removed long ago. The Russia stuff is largely irrelevant. The real impeachable offenses are his racist words and deeds, his atrocities in Yemen, and the dishonor he brings to this country every day."[61]

John Hickenlooper

See also: John Hickenlooper presidential campaign, 2020
  • May 30, 2019: "After listening to Mueller, and I wanted to hear what he had to say, I think of myself as an extreme moderate, but I think he laid the responsibility clearly at the doorstep of Congress. I think we have to begin an impeachment inquiry. That doesn’t mean we’re going to impeach President Trump tomorrow or maybe ever. But I do think we have an obligation to follow where the facts lead."[62]
  • April 23, 2019: "I think Mr. Mueller should testify in front of Congress, and then we can see in gory detail and in high-contrast color more clearly what went on and make a decision about impeachment."[63]

Jay Inslee

See also: Jay Inslee presidential campaign, 2020
  • April 19, 2019: "Congress needs to get to the bottom of this in a vigorous investigation and see where this leads. Impeachment should not be off the table. There should continue to be this investigation."[64]

Seth Moulton

See also: Seth Moulton presidential campaign, 2020
  • April 23, 2019: "Begin the formal [impeachment] process, just like what happened with Nixon. It takes time. You have a debate, but we should be having this discussion. I mean, look, the president has 30 close associates—over 30 close associates who have been indicted as a result of the Mueller investigation. His own campaign chairman - his own campaign chairman is in prison right now. So don't tell me there's not enough to debate impeaching the president. He is subject to the same laws the rest of us are, and that's why we should move forward with this debate."[65]

Eric Swalwell

See also: Eric Swalwell presidential campaign, 2020
  • June 13, 2019: "Congress has no choice: we must begin an impeachment inquiry against @realDonaldTrump. He has invited the Russians to again sabotage our elections. And he has obstructed (& obstructs) justice. Time to be held accountable. Our democracy is worth saving."[66]
  • May 26, 2019: "You only get one shot at this. I want to make sure we get it right. I think that means first getting the full Mueller report unredacted, getting Mueller to testify himself, getting people like Don McGahn in and so we are pressing that, and we are winning in the courts right now."[67]


Which presidents have been impeached?

See also: Impeachment of federal officials

This section provides a brief history of the impeachment of presidents. Of the other three presidents who have had articles of impeachment against them adopted, two were acquitted by the U.S. Senate and one resigned before the full U.S. House vote took place.

Andrew Johnson

On February 24, 1868, President Andrew Johnson (Union) became the first sitting president to be impeached. Following Congress' passage of the Tenure of Office Act forbidding the president from removing federal officials without the approval of Congress, Johnson fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and replaced him with Ulysses S. Grant. Johnson hoped to challenge the constitutionality of the Act.

The House charged him with violating the Act and passed an impeachment resolution 126-47. Johnson was acquitted by the Senate on May 16, 1868, by a vote of 35-19, one vote short of two-thirds. Seven Republican senators broke ranks with the party to prevent Johnson's conviction.[68]

Richard Nixon

Three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice, misuse of power, and contempt of Congress were approved by the House Judiciary Committee against President Richard Nixon (R) in July 1974. The charges followed Nixon's involvement in covering up the attempted burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate two years earlier.

Nixon resigned on August 8, 1974, before the articles of impeachment went to a full floor vote in the House.[69]

Bill Clinton

President William Jefferson Clinton (D) was impeached by the U.S. House on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998. The first article of impeachment for perjury passed the House by a vote of 228-206, while the second vote on obstruction of justice passed by 221-212. The charges stemmed from an affair Clinton had with White House staffer Monica Lewinski. House Republicans accused Clinton of lying and having others lie to hide the affair. Two other charges, perjury in regards to an affair with Paula Jones and abuse of power, were rejected by the House.[70]

With 708 days remaining in his second term as president, the Senate acquitted Clinton on both charges brought up by the House on February 12, 1999. The perjury charge failed by a vote of 45-55 while the obstruction of justice charge failed on a tied vote of 50-50.[71]

Footnotes

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  2. White House, "Remarks by President Trump and President Salih of Iraq Before Bilateral Meeting," September 24, 2019
  3. Associated Press, "The Latest: Democrats say Trump allegations are impeachable," September 24, 2019
  4. Business Insider, "Here's where 2020 Democratic presidential candidates stand on impeaching Trump," May 1, 2019
  5. U.S. Department of Justice, "Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election," accessed June 6, 2019
  6. CNBC, Mueller: President Trump was not ‘totally exonerated’ in Russia probe and can be indicted after he leaves office," July 24, 2019
  7. 7.0 7.1 Congressional Research Service, "Impeachment and removal," October 29, 2015
  8. Twitter, "Senator Bennet," September 24, 2019
  9. CNN, "Bennet: Trump 'probably committed impeachable offenses.' Congress should do its job to investigate him," May 30, 2019
  10. CBS News, "Transcript: Sen. Michael Bennet on 'Face the Nation,'" May 12, 2019
  11. CNN, "Joe Biden calls for Trump's impeachment for first time," October 9, 2019
  12. Twitter, "TalkingPointsMemo," September 24, 2019
  13. Breitbart, "Joe Biden on Impeachment: Congress Has No Other Option," June 4, 2019
  14. The Hill, "Biden: If Trump blocks investigations, Congress has no choice but to impeach him," April 30, 2019
  15. InsiderNJ, "Cory Booker Reaction to Pelosi Announcing Formal Impeachment Inquiry," September 24, 2019
  16. Twitter, "Cory Booker," May 19, 2019
  17. CNN, "Transcripts," October 17, 2019
  18. The Hill, "Bullock: Only option is impeachment proceedings if Congress is denied whistleblower report," September 24, 2019
  19. Washington Times, "Steve Bullock, Montana governor, declines to join in on impeachment frenzy," May 30, 2019
  20. CBS News, "2020 hopeful Steve Bullock touts winning in a "Trump state" and says he can 'bridge divides' with GOP," May 15, 2019
  21. CNN, "Cuomo Prime Time Transcript," September 24, 2019
  22. Twitter, "Pete Buttigieg," May 29, 2019
  23. Newsweek, "Pete Buttigieg Says Trump Deserves Impeachment, and He Will 'Relegate Trumpism to the Dustbin of History,'" April 23, 2019
  24. Julián Castro, "Castro Statement on Impeachment," September 24, 2019
  25. Twitter, "Julián Castro," May 29, 2019
  26. BuzzFeed News, "Julián Castro Says Democrats Should Be Able To Make The Case For Impeachment And Provide A Vision For 2020," April 23, 2019
  27. Axios, "Where 2020 Democrats stand on impeaching Trump," September 24, 2019
  28. John Delaney, "Delaney Statement on Rep. Amash’s call for Trump’s Impeachment," May 21, 2019
  29. Twitter, "John Delaney," April 18, 2019
  30. ABC News, "Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard changes course on impeachment inquiry," September 27, 2019
  31. Fox News, "Tulsi Gabbard won't join fellow Democrats' calls for impeachment: It would be 'terribly divisive,'" September 24, 2019
  32. Fox News, "Tulsi Gabbard: Mueller report found 'no collusion took place,' Dems shouldn't push to impeach Trump," April 21, 2019
  33. Twitter, "Kamala Harris," September 24, 2019
  34. CNN, "Kamala Harris on Trump: 'I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment,'" April 23, 2019
  35. Twitter, "Amy Klobuchar," September 24, 2019
  36. CNN, "Amy Klobuchar joins Democrats calling for impeachment proceedings," June 14, 2019
  37. Twitter, "Amy Klobuchar," May 29, 2019
  38. The Hill, "Wayne Messam becomes third 2020 Dem to back Trump impeachment," April 22, 2019
  39. Twitter, "Beto O'Rourke," September 24, 2019
  40. Dallas Morning News, "Beto O'Rourke now calls for impeaching Trump: 'No man ... is above the law,'" May 4, 2019
  41. Twitter, "Tim Ryan," September 24, 2019
  42. CNN, "CNN town halls with Moulton, Ryan and Swalwell," June 2, 2019
  43. CNN, "Tim Ryan does not support impeachment proceedings against Trump: 'Let the process play itself out,'" April 21, 2019
  44. Facebook, "Bernie Sanders," September 24, 2019
  45. The Hill, "Sanders calls for an impeachment inquiry," May 30, 2019
  46. CNN, "CNN hosts 5 Democratic town halls," April 23, 2019
  47. Twitter, "Tom Steyer," September 24, 2019
  48. Twitter, "Elizabeth Warren," September 24, 2019
  49. MarketWatch, "Warren becomes first 2020 presidential candidate to call for Trump impeachment," April 19, 2019
  50. NBC News, "2020 Democratic candidates' Trump impeachment push grows," September 24, 2019
  51. Twitter, "Marianne Williamson," May 30, 2019
  52. Washington Times, "Marianne Williamson, Dem. presidential candidate: Trump 'clearly has fascist leanings,'" April 15, 2019
  53. Twitter, "Andrew Yang," September 24, 2019
  54. Twitter, "Andrew Yang," June 1, 2019
  55. Twitter, "Andrew Yang," April 18, 2019
  56. Patch.com, "De Blasio Calls For Impeachment, Says Trump Invited Foreign Help," June 14, 2019
  57. CNN, "State of the Union," May 26, 2019
  58. City of New York, "Transcript: Mayor de Blasio Appears Live on The Brian Lehrer Show," April 19, 2019
  59. KRCW, "Presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand on impeachment, single payer health care, and abortion rights," May 30, 2019
  60. Breitbart, "Kirsten Gillibrand: Trump Obstructed Justice — We Could Proceed To Impeachment," April 23, 2019
  61. Twitter, "Mike Gravel," April 19, 2019
  62. The Hill, "2020 hopeful Hickenlooper calls for impeachment inquiry," May 30, 2019
  63. WBUR, "2020 Candidate John Hickenlooper On The Mueller Report, China And Fracking," April 23, 2019
  64. Seattle Times, "Inslee says impeaching Trump ‘should not be off the table,'" April 19, 2019
  65. NPR, "House Should Begin Impeachment Process Against Trump, Rep. Moulton Says," April 23, 2019
  66. Twitter, "Eric Swalwell," June 13, 2019
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