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They showed that Mr. Trump and his aides and allies linked a sought-after Oval Office meeting for Ukraines new president to the investigations. And they established that the administration had frozen $391 million in military aid to Ukraine an ally under threat from Russia during the period when Mr. Trump was pushing hardest for the investigations.

The risks now, Democrats asserted, rest with Senate Republicans if they fail to give serious consideration to convicting Mr. Trump.

Im stunned by some of the reactions, from their own mouths, from the leaders of the Senate abandoning their oath, in defiance of their oath, in plain view, said Representative Madeleine Dean, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who sits on the Judiciary Committee. I think of it as malpractice, but its much more serious than that.

Still, the political ramifications for House Democrats were evident, especially with the start of what will certainly be a combative election year just days away.

Led by the president and his allies, Republicans promised to make vulnerable Democrats pay for their impeachment votes and said the partisan split combined with the near certainty that the Senate would ultimately, and perhaps quickly, acquit the president would allow them to make the case that this was strictly a political exercise born out of spite against a duly elected president.

Moments after the House voted to impeach Mr. Trump, American Action Network, a conservative advocacy group, announced it would hit Democratic lawmakers who supported impeachment and represent districts won by the president in 2016 with a combined $2.5 million of television and online advertisements. Conservative groups had already flooded those districts with a torrent of advertisements.

Each and every one of these members will have to explain their vote to impeach President Trump, Dan Conston, the president of American Action Network, said in a statement. Folks at home expect their member of Congress to deliver on real issues. Instead, theyve spent every waking moment trying to remove Trump from office for their own partisan political ends.

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House Democrats Bet Their Impeachment Votes Are Worth It - The New York Times