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The vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to conduct an impeachment inquiry (the first step in the process) was 410-4. When the Judiciary Committee eventually voted to recommend articles of impeachment, as many as 1/3 of the repubs on the committee supported the articles (it varied article to article) and after the final smoking gun revelation came out a week after the articles were voted, virtually every repub on the judiciary committee indicated that they would now support impeachment,even those that had voted against the articles.

But the key point to recall is that overwhlemingly bipartisan vote just to start the process. Without some measure of repub support, the House will never vote along partisan lines to direct the Judiciary Committee to conduct an inquiry/consider articles of impeachment. Even when Clinton was impeached, there were 31 Democrats at the start who voted to authorize the Judiciary Committee's inquiry.