Rep. Al Green promises a House vote to impeach Trump 'before Christmas'

A Democratic Representative from Texas has declared that there will be a House vote to impeach President Trump before Christmas.

“I now announce that before Christmas, there will be a vote on the ‘Chief Inciter’ of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism, ethnocentrism,” Congressman Al Green said on the House floor Wednesday. “There will be a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Speaker, on the impeachment of the president.”

“The momentum is building. More people favor impeachment than not,” he further noted.

In fact, his claim appears to be corroborated by a Public Policy Polling survey from late last month which, according to a news release, found “a record level of support for impeaching Donald Trump. 49% of voters support impeaching him, to 41% who are opposed to doing so.”

Green had also alluded to recent Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and other states.

“I rise to thank those who voted to reject…hatred in all of its forms,” he said.

The Texas lawmaker has called for Trump’s impeachment before—for instance, in September after the president denounced NFL players protesting the national anthem and about two weeks ago in the wake of Trump’s dispute with a Florida Congresswoman over a phone call to a Gold Star widow.

And in the time between these two events, Green submitted articles of impeachment against the president, claiming Trump “has undermined the integrity of his office with impunity, has brought disrepute on the presidency with immunity, has betrayed his trust as President to the manifest injury of the American people, [and] is unfit to be President…”

Despite evidence of some support, the New York Times pointed out in October that such a hearing would likely not take place since Republicans are driving the issues that move forward in the legislative process.