Congressional Republicans are divided over whether the House should embark on an impeachment inquiry involving President Joe Biden while polls show voters are more concerned about the economy.
House lawmakers from the most conservative districts are keen to rev up the voters back home — and ward off potential primary challengers — with an impeachment probe. Senate GOP leaders, eying an election next year chock full of vulnerable Democrats, want to focus instead on the economy because that’s what moves independents seen as key to winning close races.
Critics of the president have cited his management of the Mexican border and possible involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings as potential grounds for impeachment. Recent polling shows inflation, jobs and the economy are seen as the most important issues among all voters and independents specifically. Twenty percent of independent voters called inflation their No. 1 concern in an Aug. 5-8 poll by the Economist and YouGov.In the race for Senate control, Republicans have a favorable map as they seek to wrest power from Democrats, who have a 51-49 majority.
Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from Virginia who once led the party’s House campaign committee, said if members overplay their hand there is a risk of a repeat of 1998. That’s when Republicans led an impeachment of President Bill Clinton but lost five House seats in the next midterm elections. The recriminations and intrigues that followed prompted Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign.
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