How House Republicans have stayed unified on impeachment The Hill, Nov 21, 2019
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And after four days of testimony, it still seems unlikely that any House Republican would vote to back articles of impeachment.
Republican leadership, the House GOP whip team and the administration took early steps to tamp down potential defections and walk members through their arguments.
“We’ve been taking members up to Camp David, we’ve done several trips on that, that’s helped,” one administration official told The Hill. “And then obviously getting people in front of the president, that makes a difference when they get to hear from [him] directly. So, those are the big thing we try to do ahead of it.”
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) held four member briefings on impeachment that a senior GOP aide said reached nearly the entire conference. Two came before Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced an impeachment process resolution would come to the floor, and two followed the announcement.
The aide said that helped Republicans have a “united front.”
The senior aide said leadership worked members before the Halloween vote to prevent defections, but said the early talks helped grease the skids.
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