The Democratic majority in the House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is expected to approve two articles of impeachment.
The Republican-dominated Senate will then open a trial in January and is all but certain to acquit the president.
Later he was to fly to the electoral swing state of Michigan for a rally with thousands of his most loyal supporters – possibly right around the time of the House vote. Republicans in Congress reject the impeachment unanimously. Democrats overwhelmingly support, but leaders are sweating over the possibility that several legislators may break ranks and vote no out of fear of retribution from pro-Trump voters in swing districts back home.Trump is accused of using a delay in delivery of foreign aid money to Ukraine to try to force the country to open a deliberately embarrassing corruption probe into a main 2020 reelection rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
One Democratic legislator who was skeptical about supporting impeachment, Debbie Dingell from Michigan, wrote in The New York Times that she'd finally come around to backing the vote because Trump poses"a threat to our democracy."
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