House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t released any transcripts of her conversations with wavering Democratic lawmakers, but it’s clear to everyone involved that she wants a successful impeachment vote on the House floor next week. One might even consider it a “personal political benefit.”

For those Democrats in swing districts willing to swallow their concerns and vote against the Speaker’s principal political rival, there seem to be rewards available. Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis report in the Washington Post, “House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a vote to impeach President Trump could cost them their seats in November.”

Is the Speaker doing anything to alleviate such concerns? The Posties report:

Pelosi has... tried to give moderates political cover with a series of legislative victories they can tout back home. Among them are a major trade deal and passage of a sweeping defense bill with paid leave for federal workers, as well as votes on key campaign promises to lower the cost of prescription drugs and bolster voting rights.

Some moderates are getting even more. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic centrist who is agonizing about how to vote, secured a major win in the defense bill that the House passed Wednesday — a provision designed to boost a local manufacturing plant in his district that Trump carried by more than 15 points.

Brindisi’s ousted predecessor, Claudia Tenney, had implored GOP leadership to adopt the provision, which requires the military to buy American-made eating utensils. The only U.S. manufacturer that produces those utensils, Sherrill Manufacturing, is headquartered in the Upstate New York district.

GOP leaders ignored Tenney but Pelosi didn’t.

“STICK A FORK IN IT!” Brindisi tweeted, touting the win.

Sounds like Mr. Brindisi may have gotten a quid. Next week will he deliver a quo? Ukraine never did commence a Biden investigation for President Trump, yet the country still received U.S. assistance on time. Maybe Mr. Brindisi will feel free to go his own way.

Ukraine’s president says he never felt pressured and didn’t even realize assistance might be withheld if he didn’t examine the deal that Hunter and Joe Biden cannot defend and have promised never to repeat.