ABC’s Dowd: ‘Base of the Dem Party Is Not Going To Let Them Not Impeach’ Trump

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STEPHANOPOULOS: And we’re already hearing — Democrats talked about impeachment, Democrats talked about resignation. Patrick Gaspard, remember back in 1998, the Republicans pushed the impeachment card far, as far as you can go. They impeached President Clinton in a year where the — President Clinton and the Democrats actually gained seats.

Could the Democrats go too far here?

GASPARD: It’s always — it’s politics. It’s Washington, D.C. So there’s an instinct towards overreaching. But it — but let’s just talk about where we really are here. It’s hard to go too far against somebody who releases a tweet against a standing U.S. senator and basically tries to, pardon my language, slut-shame Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York State.

So Donald Trump has stretched all the boundaries of what might be too far in the politics today.

DOWD: The base of the Democratic Party is not going to let them not impeach Donald Trump, 81 percent or 82 percent of Democratic voters...

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: If they take control of the House.

DOWD: The last poll I saw said that Donald Trump should be impeached. There is no way that the Democrats are not going to be able to start — have to start holding impeachment hearings with their base the way they feel.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Seventy percent of the public believes the president should be investigated.

PACE: And I think that’s because there is a lot of smoke swirling around these investigations. There hasn’t been a smoking gun at this point. But when you certainly look at the...

DOWD: There are fingerprints.