Why are Democrats hesitating on impeaching Donald Trump?

Strategic calculation and scandal overload have held back the president's critics

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The US House Intelligence Committee chairman has warned that Donald Trump could be impeached if he pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former US vice president Joe Biden.

Talk of impeachment seems to have surrounded Trump since the day he became US president and it is intensifying. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have called for Democratic leadership to pursue impeachment immediately.

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