House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Monday that House Democrats could help President Trump get reelected in 2020 if they continually investigate him.
“If they move so far to the left that they only want to harass the president and ultimately impeach the president, that is going to backfire on them,” Scalise told The Washington Examiner.
“We saw this with the Kavanaugh hearings.”
{mosads}Support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and anger at Democrats’ opposition were credited as helping Republicans pull off key wins in the Senate during the midterm elections last week.
“The danger they’re going to have is that the far left wants them to move toward resistance and ultimately impeachment of the president regardless of the facts,” Scalise told the Examiner. “And that’s not where the country is.”
Last Wednesday, Trump expressed interest in working with Democrats but said he would adopt a “warlike posture” if they go after him.
“They can play that game, but we can play it better, because we have a thing called the United States Senate,” Trump said. “It’ll go back and forth. And it’ll probably be very good for me politically.”
Scalise told the Examiner that he worries the “far left” will stop Democrats from being able to work with the president.
“I’m not sure the far left is going to allow the House to work with the president to get things done,” he said.
“[House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi is already very liberal but I think her conference has moved even further to the left from the last time she was speaker.”