Dems Grapple With “Rising Clamor” for Trump Impeachment

Impeachment calls have increased in 2026 amid the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the Justice Department’s investigations into Trump’s perceived opponents.

Democratic leaders are moving cautiously ahead of the midterms, when they will need to gain at least three seats to win control of Congress.

A number of progressive Democrats from liberal districts, along with candidates in crowded blue-seat primaries, have called for the impeachment of Trump and key Cabinet officials, Benjamin Siegel reported for Good Morning America.

Democrats are also targeting Cabinet officials. More than 80 Democrats have cosponsored Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the deployment of federal agents to Minnesota and the killing of a Minneapolis woman by a federal agent.

A number of progressive Democrats from liberal districts, along with candidates in crowded blue-seat primaries, have called for the impeachment of Trump and key Cabinet officials, Benjamin Siegel reported for Good Morning America.

Democrats are also targeting Cabinet officials.

More than 80 Democrats have cosponsored Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the deployment of federal agents to Minnesota and the killing of a Minneapolis woman by a federal agent.

Still, Democratic leaders are moving cautiously ahead of the midterms, when they will need to gain at least three seats to win control of Congress.

Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old activist running for Congress in Illinois, has argued that Democratic leaders need to “grow a f---ing spine” and do more to challenge the Trump administration.

She has protested ICE activities in Chicago and has pleaded not guilty to charges that she interfered with law enforcement during a protest outside an ICE facility in Illinois last fall that went viral on social media.

“If candidates and members of Congress are not relentlessly focusing on people’s everyday lives, they are making a mistake,” former Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos, who led the House Democrats’ campaign committee, told ABC News.

“There’s so much of what President Trump has done, is doing, and will do that can be labeled ‘impeachable offenses,’ but in the end, what good is it going to do? Even if the House has the votes, the Senate will not go along with it,” she said.

The House has already rejected two impeachment efforts from Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Texas. In June, 128 Democrats voted with Republicans to block his charges over the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities without approval from Congress.