Originally Posted by
Kiri
Impeachment can only be staged by a majority in the House I think, so it would take all democrats and republican defectors. Thing is though, republicans know that if they impeach him now, they will spend the next few months on that and that alone, while likely losing the majority in the midterms, so they won't get a lot of their policy proposals through. So, unless he becomes really untenable, they will likely stick with him until they got whatever reforms they want through, or lose a majority.