Is his mind made up now in opposition to impeachment and not subject to change?
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“I would never say that if you get more information. There could be something new.”
Bacon, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, defeated one-term Democratic Rep. Brad Ashford in 2016 to win the House seat and was reelected in 2018. He’ll be seeking a third term next November.
The 2nd District, composed of Douglas County and suburban western Sarpy County, handed Democratic nominee Barack Obama one of Nebraska’s five presidential electoral votes in 2008 and is certain to be a presidential battleground district in 2020.
Trump won the district in 2016 by a slim margin: Trump, 137,564; Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, 131,030.
The bottom line is that it’s a swing district, Bacon said, a battleground. And the upcoming House vote on impeachment would be risky for him whether he was a Republican or a Democrat.
“I believe the evidence backs up what I am saying, and, in the end, I have to do what I think is right,” he said.
Bacon said he has not read the transcript of the lengthy House Intelligence Committee hearings, but “I did read the summaries every night.”
And he kept track of the House Judiciary Committee hearings, he said, while performing his own duties as a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee.
