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A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to &ldquo;fight like hell&rdquo; against election results and a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
				The House vote on an article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection was still underway Wednesday, but the Democratic-led House had secured enough votes to impeach Trump. Some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach the president.
				During debate before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republicans and Democrats to &ldquo;search their souls.&rdquo; Trump is the first American president to be impeached twice.
				The impeachment proceedings came one week after a violent, pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol, sending lawmakers into hiding and revealing the fragility of the nation&rsquo;s history of peaceful transfers of power. Five people died.
				Trump has taken no responsibility for the riot.
				GOP backers
				Newly elected Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer said that &ldquo;with a heavy heart&rdquo; he would join some other Republicans in supporting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
				Meijer announced he would vote to impeach Trump in a statement released Wednesday as the House was debating the proceedings. He said the vote &ldquo;isn&rsquo;t a victory for my party, and isn&rsquo;t the victory Democrats might think it is.&rdquo;
				But after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week in an effort to overturn Democrat Joe Biden&rsquo;s win, Meijer says it&rsquo;s a step &ldquo;for us to reflect on these events and seek ways to correct them.&rdquo;
				Meijer said impeaching Trump will likely exacerbate division and set precedent. But he ultimately concluded it is a &ldquo;meaningful&rdquo; way to hold Trump accountable for the &ldquo;seriousness&rdquo; of his actions.
				The choice facing Republicans isn&rsquo;t just about the immediate fate of Trump, who has just seven days left in his presidency. It&rsquo;s about whether the party&rsquo;s elected leaders are ready to move on from Trump, who remains popular with many GOP voters but is now toxic in much of Washington.
				How they proceed could determine whether the party remains viable in upcoming elections or splinters in a way that could limit their relevance.
				&ldquo;We&rsquo;re at the moment now where we&rsquo;re seeing a fracturing, a breaking, because of the unprecedented situation &mdash; the sedition, the violence, the death,&rdquo; said Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican strategist who left the party because of Trump.
				The stunning nature of the deadly insurrection &mdash; and Trump&rsquo;s role in fueling it &mdash; has shaken many lawmakers. Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, gave rank-and-file conservatives the green light to abandon Trump in a scathing statement Tuesday evening.
				&ldquo;There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,&rdquo; she charged.
				Check back for updates.

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