From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Daily.

Today, days after moderate house Democrats announced they would support an impeachment inquiry

against President Trump. They were turned home to their swing districts on recess.

It's the first time they've faced their constituents since that decision.

Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan went to three town halls last week.

We went with her to all of them.

It's Wednesday, October 9th.

Congresswoman, I'd love for you to go back to a couple of weeks ago.

You're headed home to your district in Michigan for the first time since you've made this decision

that you surely knew would upset many of your constituents.

Was there any question in your mind whether you would hold town halls while you were back in your

district? Oh no, no. I mean, what we actually did was add more. I obviously knew that the decision

was going to be controversial. So no, it was more important than anything for me to get in front

of my district and go to the three counties in three days. Hi, my name is Mele. I'm the

congresswoman's chief of staff. And first and foremost, we did not expect such a big turnout.

In the very first one that we did was just walking into the Grand Traverse Pi Company in East

Lansing and just basically not being able to get in the door. Now, it was surprising how many

people were there and just the physical getting in the room, finding a tiny little corner where I

could speak from making sure people could hear me in the way back. Do you guys have anything else

going on in the middle of the day? My gosh, I'm thrilled to see so many people here. I wanted to come

home to the district and make sure that everybody heard from me directly on what's going on in the

past week, week and a half. I mean, for me, it felt like this is how it's supposed to work.

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