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In One Pennsylvania Swing District, It's Not All Impeachment All The Time

In the state's seventh congressional district,
Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., speaks with constituents in her district during the October congressional recess. Wild says voters are more focused on pocketbook issues than the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Rep. Susan Wild is a freshman Democrat. She represents a labor-heavy district in Pennsylvania, a state President Trump won by a razor-thin margin in 2016.

And now she's taking a political risk by declaring support for a House impeachment probe of Trump.

Still, she wants her constituents to know her time remains focused on committee work that has nothing to do with investigating the president.

"You can tell other people who think that all we're doing down there is, you

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