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Fact check: How many Republican lawmakers voted to impeach Trump in 2019 versus 2025?
Executive summary
A review of the materials provided shows that no House Republicans voted to impeach President Trump during the 2019 impeachment and that ten House Republicans voted to impeach him in the January 2021 vote following the Capitol attack; the supplied 2025-era items do not provide a definitive count for any 2025 impeachment action or vote. The three contemporaneous January 2021 accounts consistently list 10 Republican House members supporting impeachment and contrast that with unanimous GOP opposition in 2019 [1] [2] [3]. The 2025 sources mention calls or discussions about impeachment but do not report an actual vote tally [4] [5] [6].
1. What the 2019 vote actually looked like — unanimous GOP opposition, plainly recorded
The dataset asserts that during the House impeachment that led to charges in late 2019, no Republican House members voted to impeach President Trump, reflecting unified Republican opposition to that impeachment. This conclusion appears consistently across the January 2021 retrospectives that compare the two impeachments and explicitly state the contrast between zero GOP votes in 2019 and later bipartisan support in 2021 [1] [2] [3]. Those 2021 pieces frame 2019 as a near-party-line proceeding, which is the factual baseline the later reporting uses to highlight any deviation.
2. The January 2021 break — ten Republicans crossed the aisle
Three separate January 2021 articles included in the materials independently identify the same group of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 events at the Capitol. Each account emphasizes the historic nature of this bipartisan action, explicitly listing or naming the ten GOP members and treating the count of 10 as settled in contemporary reporting [1] [2] [3]. Those sources present the figure as a clear contrast with the 2019 outcome and therefore anchor the factual comparison between the two prior impeachments.
3. The 2025 materials are talking points, not vote tallies — no numeric answer provided
The three 2025-dated items in the supplied corpus mention impeachment conversations and statements by lawmakers but do not include a specific count of Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach in 2025. One headline notes bipartisan backing for impeachment inquiries, another references support for an impeachment probe among New Jersey representatives, and a third quotes a Republican calling Trump’s conduct “impeachable,” yet none supply vote totals or an official House or Senate action count for 2025 [4] [5] [6]. These pieces therefore cannot be used to establish a firm numeric comparison for 2025.
4. How to interpret the mismatch in available data — reporting vs. formal action
The presence of retrospective 2021 reporting with precise vote tallies (10 GOP in 2021, zero in 2019) and 2025 reporting that focuses on statements or probes indicates a difference between formal votes and political positioning. The 2021 sources document an actual, recorded House vote and list the GOP dissenters; the 2025 sources document evolving political pressure, inquiries, and commentary without supplying a consequential roll-call total [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. That distinction matters: calls for impeachment can proliferate without producing a House vote that would yield a count comparable to the prior impeachments.
5. Possible agendas and why coverage emphasizes contrasts
The 2021 pieces explicitly frame the ten Republican votes as historic precisely because they contrasted with unanimous GOP opposition in 2019, an angle that highlights partisan shift and individual defections [1] [2] [3]. The 2025 items emphasize bipartisan pressure and Republican statements on impeachable conduct likely to influence readers’ perception that momentum exists, while lacking vote data to confirm institutional action [4] [5] [6]. Readers should note that outlets may spotlight either the shock of GOP defections or the signaling power of calls for impeachment, depending on narrative aims.
6. Bottom line and what’s missing for a definitive 2019 vs 2025 numeric comparison
Based on the supplied sources, the factual comparison establishes 0 Republican votes in 2019 versus 10 Republican votes in the January 2021 impeachment, but no verifiable Republican vote count for any 2025 impeachment is present in the provided 2025 items [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. To answer “How many Republican lawmakers voted to impeach Trump in 2025?” definitively would require a contemporaneous source that records an actual roll-call vote in 2025 or an official House report; that critical piece is absent from the materials you provided.