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If Trump fires Mueller or Rosenstein, Democrats running for U.S. House in 2018 must campaign on impeaching Trump

Under normal circumstances, I would not advocate for candidates for seats in either house of Congress openly campaigning on a platform that included support for a plan to impeach and remove the sitting President of the United States. However, the current state of affairs in this country is not normal circumstances. There is already a sizable segment of the Democratic base voters who are demanding the impeachment of President Donald Trump over, among other things, his role in the collusion between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. At this time, I would consider it to be too risky of a political strategy for Democratic candidates in the U.S. House of Representatives to openly campaign on impeaching Trump, as that would simply allow Republicans to accuse Democrats of attempting a political power grab. However, if President Donald Trump fires either Special Counsel Robert Mueller or U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, that would, in an of itsel