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Competing rallies face off to support, criticize Rep. Ben McAdams’ support of impeachment inquiry

West Jordan • Scores of Utahns butted heads Wednesday — sometimes nearly literally — in a parking lot outside the office of Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, to cheer or jeer his belated support of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

It started when Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee scheduled a news conference and rally there to attack McAdams. But the congressman’s supporters and Trump critics showed up with about three times as many people to outshout them.

As the pro-impeachment side of about 100 chanted, “Trump broke the law.” The Trump-supporting group of about 35 people yelled at the same time, “Ben broke the law.