Back home, battleground Democrats encounter support -- but not hunger -- for impeachment

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — It was his first town hall at home since he announced his support for an impeachment inquiry a week earlier. Rep. Anthony Delgado, a first-term Democrat whose rural swing district includes this scenic town on the Hudson River, thought he knew what was coming.

“This district is politically diverse — a third independent, a third Democrat, and a third Republican. If we can’t figure out how to get along here, how to find common ground here, I worry,” Delgado said. He then delicately explained how he had arrived at his decision to support impeachment proceedings to the dozens of constituents who flooded a community center here Tuesday night.

“For those who have been following me and understand how I’ve tried to be as deliberative and thoughtful as I can be in this incredibly divisive and partisan time, you know that it took me some time to get to a point where I felt comfortable coming out for impeachment,” he said.

But the blowback he feared never appeared.

Instead, his comments were met with a loud round of applause from nearly everyone in the room.

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But during Delgado’s nearly two-hour town hall on Tuesday, only one person, a vocal Trump supporter, was openly critical of the process.

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