This is, “extreme politics at its worst,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams wrote on social media.
Reportedly the impeachment inquiry by House Republicans will focus on Biden and their accusations of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009-2017 from his son’s Hunter Biden’s business ventures, even though a 2020 Senate investigation and repeated searches by House Republicans have failed to find any evidence of such claims.
Biden previously had mocked Republicans over a possible impeachment and the White House said they have no basis to do so.
It’s reported that GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been pressured by extreme hardline Republicans who have threatened to remove him as the leader of the House if he did not move forward with the impeachment effort against Biden.
McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday that the move would “enhance investigators’ ability to get information, not reach a pre-determined outcome. “That’s all we’re doing. America needs the answers.”
Democrats called out the inquiry as an effort to shift attention from the legal issues of Trump who now faces four separate criminal indictments while running as the GOP frontrunner for the Republican nomination against Biden.
“This impeachment is Kevin McCarthy’s shiny new object to distract the public from the fact that the GOP can’t even pass bills to fund the government,” Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal said.
The impeachment move by Republicans is unlikely to be successful.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the impeachment inquiry “absurd.”
After Biden’s 2020 presidential win in Arizona many could see what was ahead for a Republican Party that has lost its connection with the people in a state long considered to be a red stronghold.
There were reportedly three key shifts in the state: a growing Latino population that leans Democratic, a surge in voters moving to Arizona from more liberal states like California and Illinois, and the way suburban voters have starkly broken with a Republican Party led by someone like Trump.
In an sample size poll conducted by Northeast Valley News on Saturday, more than half of the respondents (46%) that were asked the question, “Should House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry of President Biden?” the majority answered “no” and a few added strong remarks against the GOP effort.
The sample poll took place at Park Central Mall located off of Central and Thomas.
“It’s pathetic a move,” because their main guy is a criminal and they want to take the spotlight off of him—but it only hurts Trump more,” said Kathryn Olsen, a retired accountant and registered independent who has resided in Phoenix for the past seven years after moving to the Valley from Detroit.
“They can say impeachment all they want, but it’s a total long-shot and they know it—and they’re threatening the country again with another government shut-down if they don’t get this because it’s all they do,” Olsen said.
Danny Garcia of south Phoenix told Northeast Valley News that he has little or no confidence in D.C. politics but was especially critical of the “extremists” in the Republican House majority.
“The impeachment announcement is pretty obvious and I don’t think anyone buys it,” Garcia said.
