House Democrats have just voted to impeach President Trump on the first phony article of impeachment on abuse of power:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Majority in #US House has voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power; voting still underway
— Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) December 19, 2019
The #impeachment vote is underway, and they just passed the # of votes needed to #impeach #Trump. @realdonaldtrump is now officially the 3rd U.S. president in history to be impeached.
History is made. pic.twitter.com/rYXoO87tge
— Robyn Ochs (@robynochs) December 19, 2019
Here’s the final vote tally for the first phony article of impeachment:
The House has voted to impeach President Trump on the 1st article for abuse of power. House is about to vote on article 2 — obstruction of Congress. Details at 9 @KABBFOX29 pic.twitter.com/duW784oCHh
— Camilla Rambaldi (@CamillaR_TV) December 19, 2019
But not all of the Democrats voted to impeach Trump. At least two voted with Republicans:
NBC News reports that Peterson (Minn.) and Van Drew (NJ) are the two Democrats who voted against the first article of impeachment (abuse of power) #ImpeachmentDay #TrumpImpeachment
— Charlotte Morabito 🍁 (@MorabitoCM) December 19, 2019
That means the vote against impeachment is technically bipartisan.
UPDATE: One Democrat refused to vote for impeachment and against it, voting ‘Present’. According to Eric Geller, that vote is Tulsi Gabbard:
The tally is still changing as more members' votes are counted.
The Republican "yea" vote disappeared.
Gabbard voted present.
228-188
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) December 19, 2019
Democrats are now voting on the second phony article of impeachment and of course we know how that’s gonna turn out. We’ll update with the vote count on that as soon as we get it…
UPDATE: Democrats have voted to impeach Trump on the second phony article of impeachment on obstruction of Congress:
BREAKING: The House has now voted to impeach Trump on Article II, obstruction of Congress, in a 229-198 (present 1) vote.
— Rebecca Shabad (@RebeccaShabad) December 19, 2019
There was a third NAY Democratic vote on this second article, but I don’t know who it was, nor do I think it matters. Because only two Democrats voted against impeachment on both articles and they are listed above as Peterson (Minn.) and Van Drew (NJ).
UPDATE: Below are the names of all three Democrats who voted against impeachment on the 2nd vote:
Final vote tally for Article II of impeachment is 229-198 with Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard voting ‘present’.
Three Democrats voted against article:
Jeff Van Drew (NJ)
Collin Peterson (MN)
Jared Golden (ME)— Jennifer Franco (@jennfranconews) December 19, 2019