CITY HALL -- Moderate Democrat Rep. Max Rose will vote “yes” on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump next week, the freshman congressman announced late Friday hours after the measure passed in the House Judiciary Committee.

“Party and politics will never come before the country I bled to protect — and would unquestionably do so again,” Rose said. “A president coercing a foreign government into targeting American citizens is not just another example of scorched earth politics, it serves as an invitation to the enemies of the United States to come after any citizen, so long as they disagree with the president. Embarking on an unprecedented effort to obstruct this inquiry doesn’t make the facts any less true. Therefore I will vote in support of the two Articles of Impeachment.

The articles of impeachment charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and follow weeks of congressional impeachment hearings.

Rose did not take part in any of the impeachment hearings and was not involved in drafting the articles of impeachment because he does not serve on the committees of jurisdiction which have been conducting the hearings.

CALLED A DEFINING MOMENT IN HIS CAREER

Some have said Rose’s impeachment vote on the full House floor marks a defining moment in the moderate Democrats’ short political career. While some fellow Democrats had vowed to not vote for him in 2020 if he voted against the articles of impeachment.

“It’s probably the most important moment in his relatively short political career because so much of the 2018 campaign was really about avoiding the subject of Trump and [Rose] governed that way as well, smacking around [Mayor Bill de Blasio] verbally, but there’s no avoiding [impeachment] next week,” said College of Staten Island political science professor Richard Flanagan.

Ultimately, Flanagan said Rose will come under fire from NY-11 voters no matter how he votes on impeachment, but cautioned that voting yes could give Rose’s GOP challenger in a congressional district that voted heavily for Trump in 2016 “ammunition in his November election.”

“He’s going to get it from both sides no matter what he decides to do,” Flanagan said. “I don’t know how that calculation will work. Base voters in the party will be very upset with him, folks who might have voted for Trump, but maybe cast a vote for Rose are going to be unhappy if he votes to impeach,” Flanagan said.

WARNING FROM THE ISLAND GOP

Shortly after announcing his plans to vote yes on impeachment, the Island’s GOP Chairman Brendan Lantry warned that NY-11 voters would remember Rose’s vote at the ballots come 2020.

So far, Rose has just one lesser-known Democratic primary challenger in the June Democratic primary, Democratic Socialist Richard-Olivier Marius of the North Shore.

On the Republican side, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-East Shore/South Brooklyn) and former Brooklyn prosecutor Joseph Caldarera will go head-to-head in the NY-11 GOP primary.

“Max Rose has proven to be the Nancy Pelosi-puppet we all knew he would be once in office. You cannot play a moderate in Staten Island and then be a lackey of the left in Washington,” said Lantry. “Staten Islanders will remember that Max Rose supported a partisan witch hunt against our president and throw him out of office next November.”

Malliotakis was quick to take aim at the freshman Democrat for backing the upcoming impeachment vote, aligning him to more progressive Democrats in his party.

“Today, Max Rose declared, once and for all, that he will vote for impeachment along with Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar and the rest. His words send a clear message to the voters of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn and, next November, we’ll send a clear message back by voting for President Trump and sending Max Rose packing," Malliotakis said.

The campaign of Caldarera urged Rose to “drop his support of impeachment” and focus on “issues that Staten Islanders and Brooklynites care about.”

ROSE WAS INITIALLY OPPOSED

Before he threw his support behind an impeachment inquiry into the president, Rose was one of a handful of Democratic members of Congress slow to throw their support behind an impeachment inquiry into the president.

Before the president’s Ukraine controversy, in September, Rose said he was opposed to impeaching the president. He argued that ousting Trump would not address serious issues facing the country and only “tear our country further apart.”

But weeks later, he put out a series of vague official statements on his position. One said “all options” needed to be on the table, another released a few days later said: “Under no circumstances will I allow politics to influence my decision regarding this matter."

The freshman congressman changed his stance about a month later at a town hall on Staten Island, vowing to “fully support” the impeachment inquiry and “follow the facts.”

“I came to Washington to take on both parties and get things done. In the past year alone we passed legislation to finally build the East Shore Seawall, permanently fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and enact sanctions on Chinese pharmaceutical companies for pumping fentanyl into our communities,” Rose said. “We’ve also beat FEMA, the Port Authority, and secured much needed funding for transportation projects. Whether the Senate votes to remove the President or not, I will continue to focus on getting results for the people of Staten Island and South Brooklyn.”

The full House could vote on the articles of impeachment as early as Tuesday or Wednesday, a source said.

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