Shri Thanedar Asked If He Has Any 'Misgivings' About Making Dems In Tight Districts Vote On Impeachment

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) was asked if he has any 'misgivings' about making Democratic colleagues in battleground states vote on his impeachment articles.

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00:00So President Trump won 13 House Democrats congressional districts in November, came close to winning many more than that.

00:08So you don't have any misgivings about making your Democratic colleagues in battleground districts take this vote?

00:14Well look, we got to stand. We got to take a stand.

00:17Look in Congress. As a member of Congress, we take hard votes every day.

00:24Every day there is a hard vote to take. That's my job. That's our job to take a hard vote.

00:30They just need to look into not what plays well politically, not what the polls are saying.

00:37We got to do the right thing. That's what you sent us to, people sent us to Washington DC to do the right thing.

00:44And we can't worry about that. We can't worry.

00:50And this is the same problem Republican borderline, frontline people would have.

00:56They have to make those decisions as well.

00:59And it's about time we stand up and say, yes, this president has conducted impeachable offenses or he has not.

01:08And just, you know, we get paid. We get sent here.

01:13The honor of serving in the United States Congress is that we make tough decisions.

01:17We take tough votes and we can't shy away from that.

01:22Yeah.

01:23Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much.

01:29Appreciate you being here on such a short notice.

01:33If there's any informal questions, I'll be happy to answer.

01:37But, you know, I will continue to focus on my duties to fight the Medicaid.

01:45And right after this, I will be going and spending all day at the Agriculture Committee fighting on the cuts in the SNAP program.

01:54So I am not giving up my fight for saving Medicaid.

01:59I'm not giving up my fight to save Social Security.

02:03I'm not giving up my fight to fight for the SNAP benefits.

02:07I'll continue all of these fights and I'll continue to work hard.

02:11Thank you so much.

02:12Thank you so much.

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02:19Right

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02:30Good job.

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