VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Representative Elaine Luria’s decision to support an impeachment inquiry into President Trump wasn’t just about his political future. It also put hers on the line.
She is a moderate Democrat who last year narrowly won the congressional seat for southeastern Virginia, a district dominated by the largest Navy base and carried by Trump in 2016. Supporting an impeachment effort could seriously endanger her reelection and she had for months declined to do so. But she was finally persuaded to join many of her Democratic colleagues last week by the allegations that Trump had asked the leader of Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
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