Pelosi needs a minimum of 216. She can afford to lose no more than 14 votes and have it still pass.
She’s losing votes almost by the week now. The seats previously held by Elijah Cummings and Katie Hill are vacant. Ted Lieu has just had heart surgery, Tulsi Gabbard missed all the House votes last week, and I believe Jose Serrano hasn’t been around to vote after he announced that he’s retiring due to Parkinson’s Disease.
216 it shall be.
Unless Pelosi cares what SCOTUS has recently decided to do.
I expect that it will pass, but Pelosi knows it will look really bad for the dems if it passes with just the bare minimum. It already looks bad that they are not expected to get even a single republican vote to give them a fig leaf of bipartisanship.
Any member who votes to impeach based on this frivolous, made up BS should be expelled for violating their oath of office.
That would be pretty sweet if Pelosi called a vote on impeachment and the vote actually failed. She would almost certainly have to resign as Speaker.
There is no way she doesn’t have the votes
Even the phony conor lamb is voting aye