US President Donald Trump has stressed the need for Republicans to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections; otherwise he would face impeachment from Democrats.
“We have to keep the House because if we listen to Maxine Waters, she’s going around saying ‘We will impeach him,’ ” Trump said at a Michigan rally on Saturday.
The president said Republicans should not become complacent because they currently control both chambers of Congress as well as the White House.
“We cannot be complacent — we gotta go out and we gotta fight like hell and we gotta win the House and we gotta win the Senate,” he said.
Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, is a leading voice on Capitol Hill calling for President Trump to resign or face impeachment.
At the 2018 TIME 100 Gala in New York last week, Waters urged Trump to “please resign.”
“So that I won’t have to keep up this fight…