Sherrod Brown says he would not support impeaching Trump if elected

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who is fighting a tough race to win his way back to the Senate, says he will not support impeaching President Trump again if Democrats win control of Congress in next month’s election.

Brown voted twice to convict Trump on impeachment charges in 2020 and 2021 before losing reelection in 2024 to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). Now, he wants Democrats to skip another impeachment battle if they win back the House and possibly the Senate, too, on Nov. 3.

“I can’t speak for everybody else, but I would not support an impeachment of Trump,” Brown told The Columbus Dispatch. “There’s simply no reason for that, no matter what happens in the midterms.”

Brown is in a neck-and-neck race with Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) in a state that Trump carried with 55 percent of the vote in the 2024 presidential election. Thep resident handily defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by more than 11-percentage points.

Husted has sought to rev up the Republican vote by campaigning with Trump.

The duo appeared at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday evening, where the president touted the incumbent senator as “a great athlete,” referring to his time as an All-American defensive back for the Division III Dayton Flyers.

Republicans are bracing for another Democratic effort to impeach Trump if Democrats capture the House, as political handicappers and Decision Desk HQ now project.

Several House Democrats have already introduced articles of impeachment against Trump in the current Congress and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is poised to become the next Speaker, isn’t ruling out another push.

“No, we haven’t ruled anything in and we haven’t ruled anything out in terms of impeachment,” Jeffries told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” in September.

House Democrats impeached Trump twice when they controlled the majority in 2019 and 2021.

The first impeachment effort sought to remove him from office on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, alleging that the president unlawfully pressed Ukrainian officials to influence the 2020 presidential election.

House Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to impeach Trump a second time on Jan. 13, 2021, accusing him of inciting insurrection after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump was acquitted both times in the Senate, where Democrats would have needed 67 votes or a two-thirds majority to convict him and remove him from office or bar him from running for office again.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told conservative pundit Scott Jennings in a recent interview that Democrats would move immediately to impeach Trump a third time if they win control of the House.

“It’s guaranteed, probably on the first day – first or second day,” Johnson predicted. “Remember, they’ve already filed articles of impeachment in this Congress. And they’re raring to go.”