Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said Sunday he supported the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but acknowledged it could hurt the eventual Democratic nominee.

"I am for impeachment, but the fact is when we're talking about Donald Trump, we are not presenting a new way forward and a positive vision for the country that Americans will get excited about," the entrepreneur said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"That's the only way we're going to win in 2020, and that's the only way we're actually going to start actually solving the problems that got him elected," Yang added. "Even when we're talking about impeaching Donald Trump, we're talking about Donald Trump and we are losing."

Yang also spoke about the impeachment probe during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash that aired Sunday on “State of the Union.“

The downside of impeachment, he told Bash, is that "the entire country just get engrossed."

"And then, we're gonna look up and be facing Donald Trump in the general election and we will not have made a real case to the American people," Yang said.

The candidate was also asked whether the impeachment probe would hurt the eventual Democratic nominee for president.

"There's a chance that it will," Yang responded. "And I just saw that it seems like the significant number of candidates may be actually called to D.C. for the bulk of January, which would definitely take the focus away from the campaign."