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BIDEN: "It is simply antithetical to our constitutional democracy to use impeachment to overturn an election on partisan grounds."
PELOSI: "I think it has traumatic impact on the confidence that the American people have in government."
NADLER: "The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters as expressed in a national election."
SCHUME: "Their hatred of the president exceeds their caring about this country and its people."
BIDEN: "It would trample on the choice made by the people through the electoral process and do great harm."
NADLER: "The people elected the president. They still support him. We have no right to overturn the considered judgment of the American people."
SANDERS: "But what the American people are saying loudly and clearly is let's get on with the business of the American people."
NADLER: "Impeachment of a president is an undoing of a national election."
BIDEN: "It violates the independence of the presidency and it usurps the people's voice."
NADLER: "They are ripping asunder our votes. They are telling us that our votes don't count. And that the election must be set aside."
WATERS: "Send a message through the ballot box. That's what we do in this democracy."