Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger faced backlash from some of her constituents about the impeachment investigation during a town hall in her home district.
In the town hall over the weekend, Spanberger tried addressing the impeachment process, but she was interrupted by multiple people expressing their support for President Trump.
“My opinion of our inquiry is mine and mine alone. No one has pressured me to vote in any particular way from within the party. And I will not be pressured to vote in any particular way,” she said. “The allegations against the president are incredibly, incredibly serious,” she said, according to CNN.
“It’s a lie. It’s all a lie!” one man shouted. Someone else yelled, “You all have been trying to impeach this man since he got elected!” Another man asserted Trump “hasn’t done anything wrong,” while yet another man implored the congresswoman, “Let our votes count! Don’t take them away!”
A representative for Spanberger told CNN that the town hall was “another example of Rep. Spanberger engaging in important conversations, updating her neighbors about her work in the House, and listening to the concerns of those she represents.”
The congresswoman was one of seven first-term Democratic members of the House, all of whom served in the military or have worked in intelligence operations, who published an op-ed in September. The op-ed said the members would back impeachment if the allegations are true that Trump threatened to withhold Ukrainian aid if prosecutors didn’t investigate Joe Biden, his son Hunter, or Burisma, the company for which the younger Biden worked in Ukraine.
Each member of Congress who signed the letter took office from a Republican incumbent.
