The Democrats could launch another bid to impeach President Trump if they regain control of Congress in the midterms.
House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refuse to rule out this possibility in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday.
Speaking to Bash on State of the Union, Schumer said the President is “violating the rule of law in every way.”
Bash asked Schumer whether he agreed with comments made by Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff on Friday at a town hall. Ossoff said that Trump’s actions over the last 12 weeks had exceeded “any prior standard for impeachment.”
“We’re fighting him every single day in every way,” Schumer responded.
“And our goal is to show the American people, over and over again, whether it’s the economy, whether it’s tariffs, whether it’s Russia and overseas and whether it’s rule of law, how bad he is. Two years is too far away to predict, our job is day to day to day, to show who Trump is, what he is doing and it’s having an effect.”
Bash pressed Schumer about impeachment again, but the veteran politician deflected, saying it’s “too far away to judge.”
Ossoff is not the first Democrat to raise the specter of another round of attempts to impeach President Trump. Congressman Al Green has already said he will seek to impeach the President at the first possible opportunity.
Schumer himself has faced challenges to his leadership in recent weeks.
Activist group Indivisible, which is bankrolled heavily by George Soros, has called for Schumer to step aside after he allowed the President’s spending bill to pass.
The group’s co-executive director Ezra Levin announced the plan to oust Schumer shortly after the funding bill passed: “Senator Schumer should step aside as leader. Every Democrat in the Senate should call for him to do so, and begin making plans for new leadership immediately.”
He added that the wrangling over the spending bill should have been used by Democrats as a “rare, precious point of leverage,” but “Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender.”
The new campaign to oust Schumer drew pointed comment from a White House official, who spoke to The New York Post.
They said: “The Democrats will have an important question to answer in the coming days: Who actually leads their party — Schumer or Soros?”
Indivisible reckons it has 1,600 local chapters and employs at least 10 paid staffers. As The New York Post notes, it’s unclear to what extent they receive “orders” from their backers.
A representative of George Soros dismissed the claim that he leads the Democrat Part as “a daydream.”
Indivisible has also been coordinating protests against Elon Musk and his work as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, including offering $200 payments to activists to take part in “Musk or us”-themed protests.