WASHINGTON _ House Democrats' historic announcement that they would begin a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump quiets a bitter intraparty argument, shifts unwanted attention to vulnerable GOP lawmakers and puts their own swing-district incumbents in a potentially difficult bind.
Now, they have to wait and find out if the public is with them.
The suddenness of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to back the impeachment process left even the most seasoned political operatives dazed as they grappled with a new political reality that had seemed unlikely even a week ago.
