Trump impeachment certain if Democrats win House: Pence

US President Donald Trump will likely face impeachment if Democratic Party lawmakers become majority in the House of Representatives after the upcoming mid-term congressional elections, Vice President Mike Pence says.

"They're all talking about it and so, you know, I take them at their word, even though some of them have decided to not talk about that quite so much," Pence said of Democrats in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on Saturday.

Despite an apparent reluctance between Democratic leaders for an impeachment before the November 6 election, several Democrats such as Representative Al Green have been filing articles of impeachment.

The possibility of an impeachment increased last week after the Republican president’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and violations of election campaign finance laws.

Cohen's campaign finance law violations included paying hush money to women who Trump had alleged affairs with prior to the 2016 US presidential campaign.

Following Cohen’s confessions, Rep. Green warned Trump that the “countdown to impeachment” had already started.

Trump found himself another step closer to possible impeachment after his former campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight charges by a federal jury in Virginia, including bank fraud, tax fraud and failure to report a foreign bank account.

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Feeling the pressure, Pence warned Republican voters that failure to preserve the Republican majority in the House would spell disaster for the party.

"The American people understand the choice in this election," he said. "Do we want to continue our nation on a path that’s creating jobs, rebuilding our military,” he said.

"That’s a choice Republicans are offering, and our administration is offering, whereas Democrats essentially are saying, 'We want more obstruction, we want more of the kind of controversy in Washington, DC, … that doesn’t make our country more safe or more prosperous,’” he added.

Trump has been dismissive of Democratic efforts to impeach him. He told Bloomberg News in a White House interview on Thursday that his opponents couldn’t impeach him because he was “doing a great job.”

"I don’t think they can impeach somebody that’s doing a great job. You look at the economy, you look at jobs, you look at foreign, what’s going on with other countries. You look at trade deals. I’m doing a great job,” he argued.

He has also dismissed as “suppression poll” the findings of a recent ABC/Washington Post poll that showed 44 percent of Americans wanted to see him impeached.

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