D onald Trump and impeachment. Three words that have been have been seen together in countless news articles over the past couple of years. The ‘i’ word has dogged the president throughout his time in the White House, with an increasing number of Democrats believing his conduct in office is enough to get him removed.

However, the party remains divided. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives where the process of impeachment would begin, worried that a failure to remove Trump (with the Senate likely to block any such move) could lead to moderate Democrats suffering at the ballot box in a crucial election year in 2020. The party has tried to shift public opinion towards impeachment a number of times, such as having Robert Mueller testify in congress about his report that found instances of possible obstruction of justice by the president, without passing judgement on them. Nothing has had the desired effect.