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A former CIA analyst, Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan changed her mind on impeachment after Trump’s Ukraine phone call, leading her party to follow her lead.

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Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan says the decision she made to back an impeachment inquiry reminds her of when she worked at the Pentagon toward the end of Barack Obama’s administration, urging that American troops be sent into Iraq to contain ISIS.

“If I came home to Michigan and talked about it with my family and my friends, they would say, ‘I’m just exhausted by that. Why do

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