Campaign fund of jimmy ausbrooks issued the following announcement on Oct. 2.
Rep. Elaine G. Luria had quietly supported her party’s priorities on gun control, advocated for veterans’ rights and kept focused on her conservative Norfolk, Virginia, district rather than seeking the national spotlight — and then she jumped onto the impeachment train.
All eyes turned to the former Navy commander last week when she and six other freshman Democrats with national security backgrounds came out in support of an official impeachment inquiry targeting President Trump.
Ms. Luria and other moderates helped “tip the scales” on impeachment, said Jennifer N. Victor, a politics professor at George Mason University.
“These were not like the liberal stalwarts. They were freshmen. They weren’t just following party leadership or party lines,” she said. “Some of them come from moderate districts. And so the fact that that group was coming out very publicly and saying ‘Nope. We’ve changed our minds. This is really serious now’ really began to turn the tide.”
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