A "moderate" is swayed

Last month I highlighted Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood as a stunning political talent, albeit a "moderate." In 2018, she flipped an 85% white, longtime Republican, district in the western suburbs of Chicago. Republicans think her one of their easiest targets to defeat in 2020.

But she insisted that she sticks to the bread and butter issues about which she hears from her constituents -- health care access and costs, college costs, ... In her telling no one asks about "the Russia thing." Probably true.

But something has changed. Now she has read the Mueller report. She has joined her Democratic colleagues in deciding it is time to look into impeachment:

No person in America is above the law, including the President of the United States. My statement on an impeachment inquiry below. pic.twitter.com/Hmm5cxPQQd

— Rep. Lauren Underwood (@RepUnderwood) August 20, 2019

I find this telling, though of just what I don't know. I would not have expected the down-to-earth Underwood to stick her head up. Whether impeachment is a strategic political move -- or timely -- is beyond my pay grade. (Obviously Trump is a walking high crime, but that's not the issue.) But if this Congresswoman is moving, something is stirring.
UPDATE: Via Daily Kos Elections:

• IL-14: Catalina Lauf, who worked in the Trump administration's Commerce Department, announced Tuesday that she would seek the GOP nod to take on freshman Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood. Lauf, who is 26 and whose mother emigrated from Guatemala, portrayed herself as the conservative answer to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I'd bet on Underwood.