House Republicans are furious about being forced into a last-minute Biden impeachment vote — which they say could hurt their campaigns, top GOP sources tell Axios' Juliegrace Brufke.

Why it matters: Even leadership doesn't want it. But just one member can force a vote.

• 🔎 Watch hardliners — Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) or Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) — as most likely to pull the trigger, sources tell us.
• Top House Republicans were prepared to let the Biden impeachment inquiry end with the report that came out last week.

Zoom in: "I tell you what I'm afraid of ... they're going to say, we don't have time to do it," Biggs said last week on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast.

• With Congress stuck in D.C. next month to hammer out a short-term funding deal, there's plenty of time for an enterprising Republican to force the issue.

Between the lines: Just last month, GOP leaders failed to stop Luna from forcing a vote on fining Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Garland vote failed on the House floor.

• Expect the same from an impeachment vote, Republicans overwhelmingly tell us.

The bottom line: 11 House Republicans are defending "toss-up" seats in the Cook Political Report rankings. Another eight have "lean Republican" seats.

• The "only thing we should be focused on is the issues that people talk about around their dinner table and keep them up at night. … That's not a Biden impeachment," one battleground House Republican told Axios.

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Just 50 political donors combined for $1.5 billion in contributions this cycle, the Washington Post reports from FEC data.

Nearly $400 million of that comes from the top four:

1. Timothy Mellon — $165 million
2. Ken Griffin — $76 million
3. Jeff and Janine Yass — $74 million
4. Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein — $71 million

Special counsel Jack Smith is trying to revive the federal classified documents case in Florida against Trump — even if it's highly unlikely it would make it to trial before Nov. 5.

Why it matters: Trump's New York hush money case made him the first former president to be convicted of a felony, but the other three cases against him have either been dismissed, put on ice or undercut.

• Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, threw out the classified documents case against the former president last month, citing the "unlawful appointment and funding of" Smith.
• Today's filing argues Cannon's decision "is at odds with widespread and longstanding appointment practices in the Department of Justice and across the government."

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