WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives has officially impeached President Donald J. Trump during a historic vote Wednesday evening.

The 45th President of the United States of America is just the third in the nation’s history to be impeached. The vote was mostly along party lines.

Democrats in the majority found President Trump committed impeachable offenses on both Articles of Impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

On Article I (abuse of power), the vote was 230-197 with one member, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, voting “present.”

On Article II (obstruction of Congress), the vote was 229-198 with Gabbard also voting “present” on this article.

The move comes nearly three months since a whistleblower came forward with information that Trump threatened to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine on the condition Ukraine’s president Volodymr Zelensky investigate Trump’s political rivals, notably former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

The vote happened during a ‘Keep America Great’ rally Trump was hosting in Michigan, a battleground state in the 2020 presidential election.

“By the way, by the way, by the way, it doesn't really feel like we're being impeached,” Trump said at the rally. “The country is doing better than ever before, we did nothing wrong.”

Lawmakers spent much of Wednesday making their final arguments both for and against impeachment. The House spent a combined eight hours debating rules on floor debate itself surrounding the articles; and on debating the articles themselves. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said it was the Constitutional duty of all members to vote their conscious.

“Today we are here to defend democracy for the people,” Pelosi said during her floor speech.

Locally, U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly and Glenn Thompson, both Republicans, voted against impeaching President Trump. They each echoed GOP talking points, that the accusations against the President were never fully proven and were not impeachable.

“When you look at what was brought forward, it was all heresy,” Kelly said. “Nobody could factually say that this happened or that happened, that the president held funding up for Ukraine.”

“There was nothing that was presented that really rose to the level of breaking any laws, any crimes, any misdemeanors or high crimes that would be an impeachable offense,” Thompson said.

Just two Democrats from Republican-heavy districts or districts that President Trump won in 2016 sided with Republicans during the vote – Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey.

The impeachment process now goes to the Senate for a trial. That is expected to begin in January.