relationship with the president might also have her eyes on a second presidential run in 2024in the runup to the november election pollsters for the wall street journal and nbc news repeatedly asked republican voters if their allegiance was more to their party or more to trump himself by the end of the campaign a decisive majority of republicans said they were more loyal to the president than to his party so far there is little evidence to suggest that has significantly changed but it still couldphoto of the dayimagecrediterin scott for the new york timesa heavyduty security fence at the us capitol yesterdaydemocrats are under pressure in a different way their base wants to prosecute trumppresident trump faces an all but certain impeachment vote this week but democrats are aiming to pressure presidentelect joe biden to see that his accountability doesnt stop once hes out of officeas my colleague lisa lerer and i reported this weekend the biden administration will face significant pressure to begin criminal investigations into trump his family and his aides as soon as the inauguration is completethe appetite to do something about trump is immense with speaker nancy pelosis announcement last night that the house would press forward with impeachment if mike pence didnt invoke the 25th amendment pelosi also said on twitter that what the president did to incite the violence should be prosecutedrepresentative james clyburn of south carolina the house majority whip said earlier on sunday that after voting on an article of impeachment as soon as tuesday the house might delay sending it to the senate which will not reconvene until the day before the inauguration making it certain that trump wouldnt be removed by congress before his term endsbut whatever happens with impeachment it is not going to be enough for a democratic base that believes trump and his allies colluded with russia engaged in tax fraud imposed illegal pressure on state officials to change the results of the presidential election used federal offices for political activity and violated the constitutions emoluments clause which prohibits a president from profiting from foreign governmentsamong other transgressionsthe word we heard over and over in interviews with more than 50 democratic officials and activists was accountability they said that letting trump leave office without answering for the litany of illegal behavior he engaged in or oversaw would be an invitation for future presidents to act as far outside the law as they wishyou cant heal the country if the kinds of wrongs that have been committed are never addressed said howard dean who served as vermont governor and democratic national committee chairmanthe intensity of the desire to see trump indicted by bidens justice department was clear hours after our article was published on saturday matt bennett a founder of the centrist democratic think tank third way said on thursday that he did not believe the biden administration should prosecute trumpafter he was quoted in our article bennett almost immediately faced the wrath of the democratic