Nearly every Republican elected statewide in Ohio is , including Gov. Mike DeWine and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman.
And they're being asked about their reactions to the official impeachment inquiry opened by the U.S. House.
Mike DeWine was a U.S. Senator during , and presided over Monica Lewinsky鈥檚 deposition. Though DeWine voted guilty on both charges, he said he didn鈥檛 make that call until the case was presented. And that鈥檚 the way he said he's approaching things now.
鈥渨hen I was in the United States Senate. I said look at the evidence, look at all the evidence, we have to wait till all the evidence is in. So I鈥檓 just not going to comment on this," DeWine said.
Sen. Rob Portman voted for Clinton鈥檚 impeachment , citing serious wrongdoing and evidence of lying under oath.
But Portman said this inquiry 鈥渨ill distract Congress from the bipartisan legislative work we should be doing to find solutions and deliver results.鈥�
Ohio's 12 Republican members of Congress are also Trump re-election honorary state chairs. Many of them responded to the impeachment inquiry announcement on Twitter. Here's a roundup of their tweets:
- : Democrats "want to divide America with their obsessive push for impeachment."
- : "This was never about Russian collusion or Ukrainian prosecutions. It is all about undoing the 2016 election and the will of the American people."
- : "It鈥檚 clear the extremists of the Democratic Party are driving an agenda of obstruction and will grasp at anything."
- : "It鈥檚 another dead end. The Left is looking for something, anything, to justify impeachment鈥nd this cynical political move will be a nonstarter with the majority of the American people."
- : "Pelosi has moved even further to the left... The far left takeover of the DNC is essentially complete. There are plenty of traditional Democrats, but they are either powerless or idle in the face of far left insurgents."
- : "Democrats have been talking about impeaching [Trump]since the day after the election. This isn鈥檛 about accountability or working on behalf of the American people--this is about their candidate not winning in 2016."
