Good Tuesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Google.

This House Democratic majority was built in places like Richmond, Salt Lake City, and Charleston.

It was in these traditional Republican strongholds that voters who put Donald Trump in the White House decided they would also send a Democrat to Washington to represent them after a campaign

that was dominated by a mix of kitchen table issues dashed with promises to keep an unusual White

House in check. And now nearly all those freshmen, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's majority makers,

will vote to remove the president from office, which could either be viewed as the type of bold

behavior for which they were sent to Washington or a career-ending political miscalculation. In 2009 and 2010, Democrats made a similar bet that voters

in the South and Midwest would reward them for passing bills to cap and trade carbon emissions

and revamp the nation's health insurance laws. Instead, those voters tossed Democrats out of

office and handed the Speaker's gavel to the GOP.

On Monday, House Democrats began to test this proposition once again when Joe Cunningham of South

Carolina, Ben McAdams of Utah, Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, Abigail Spanberger, and Elaine Luria

of Virginia, and Andy Kim of New Jersey all said they would vote to remove Trump.

There are a few ways to look at this.

If you take these lawmakers at their word, they're so disgusted with Trump's behavior that they

need to vote to remove him from office. It's their duty, they say, and perhaps so. But Congress is a

political institution where even matters of conscience are judged for their political wisdom.

First of all, take note that all these announcements came within hours of each other, a sign of unity among a group of vulnerable politicians. They're leaping together.

The overwhelming question is this. Do Trump voters have the same conviction about impeachment

that housed Democrats do? Or do they view it as a worthless, overtly political exercise? Members of

Congress at times get so enmeshed in an issue in the Capitol that they lose sight of what their constituents feel. Is impeachment a case of that? Or do voters in these Trump-leaning districts really want Congress to throw the president out of office? Speaking of what the voters want, the House is going to vote today on a bill to keep the government funded through September 2020 and change a host of unrelated policies. The bill came out yesterday. It'll get a vote tonight.

The number of issues handled that this bill is stunning. It contains major changes in health care

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