House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is facing a choice similar to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's in 2019: whether or not to impeach the sitting president and whether he has the votes and evidence to do it.
Four years after Pelosi announced that House Democrats would move forward with impeaching then-President Donald Trump, House Republicans are now considering an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. It follows months of GOP investigations into Biden's administration and family, whom Republicans believe financially benefited from foreign business dealings as part of what they call an"alleged criminal scheme.
McCarthy now faces an uphill battle because he does not have the 218 votes needed for a House vote impeachment inquiry. Some House GOP members privately worry that there is not enough evidence to back up the impeachment inquiry, according to Politico, despite top leaders such as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer insisting the evidence is overwhelming that Biden benefited from his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.
Republicans had called the Trump impeachments"illegitimate" and a partisan political move, something Democrats will be chomping at the bit to reciprocate if the House GOP moves against Biden. However, McCarthy has more things to worry about than the impeachment failing on the House floor. Trump has been extremely vocal that he will be watching House GOP efforts to eliminate any Republicans unwilling to advance his"Make America Great Again," or"MAGA," agenda and has even pledged to support primary opponents against them.
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