The speaker and his members are caught between two competing forces: conservative eagerness to target the president and skittishness from members in battleground seats.
House Republicans are caught between two forces when it comes to impeaching Joe Biden: conservative eagerness to target the president and the protection of their members in pro-Biden districts.
McCarthy must placate his hard-right critics — whose support he’ll need in this week’s high-stakes spending votes — without alienating his most skittish members who face reelection on turf that Biden won. Some House Republicans are left to privately wonder how long the speaker can keep up that balancing act, though he seems to have mollified both sides for now.
But Republicans have not yet found a smoking gun linking the president to his son’s business arrangements or that Joe Biden accepted a bribe, while both Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Attorney David Weiss have denied the whistleblower allegations. Some in the conference are pressing party leaders about the effect that a public flirtation with impeachment would have on more vulnerable members. That question got raised during a private GOP leadership meeting on Tuesday, according to a GOP member familiar with the sitdown.
And not every conservative is drawing a red line for GOP leaders on impeachment timeline or strategy. Rep. Chip Roy , who has tangled with McCarthy, said he supports an impeachment inquiry but is deferring on the specifics to McCarthy and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan .
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