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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27268080

House Republican investigators accused President Joe Biden of engaging in “impeachable conduct” as part of a long-awaited report. It’s unlikely to change a reality the party has faced for months: They don’t have the votes to impeach him.

The 291-page report released Monday by the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees comes roughly eight months after Republicans formalized their impeachment inquiry against the president. Their sweeping investigations, largely focused on the business deals of Biden’s family members, have gone on even longer, informally starting around the time they first took the House majority in January 2023.

Republicans on the committees are accusing Biden of two offenses they argue meet the bar for impeachable conduct: abuse of power and obstruction. They’re the same charges that House Democrats cited in the 2019 impeachment against then-President Donald Trump — an inquiry frequently mentioned in the House GOP report.

“The Constitution’s remedy for a President’s flagrant abuse of office is clear: impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal by the Senate,” the committees write in the report, adding they are releasing the report to the House “for its evaluation and consideration of appropriate next steps.”

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldOP
    7·
    3 months ago

    “Shes going to lose”

    What are you basing your position on

    “Go read nate silver”

    Nate Silver never said that

    “Well I never said nate said she would lose”

    What are you even on about. Are you just trolling?

    • NeuromancerM
      17·
      3 months ago

      What are you basing your position on Opinion based on her past performance and the experts thinking she will drop after she starts to talk about policies.

      She is already starting to drop in polls sooner than the experts expected. Trump has focused on name calling which isn’t helping him. If he focused on policies, he will crush her.

      https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-suffers-triple-polling-blow-before-dnc-convention-1940947

            • NeuromancerM
              16·
              3 months ago

              Can you backup your claim that incumbents share no advantage?

              • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldOP
                8·
                3 months ago

                Thats not what I said. Here, I will copy and paste it to make it nice and easy for you

                Incumbents do have a better chance. But impeaching the current one to suddenly put a VP in, and then applying the same logic of “incumbent better” makes no sense.

                Try again.

                • NeuromancerM
                  17·
                  3 months ago

                  It makes perfect sense if you understand Biden is a liability, and she would become the incumbent.

                  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldOP
                    8·
                    3 months ago

                    An incumbent after four years in power has an advantage.

                    Suddenly changing the incumbent via impeachment months before election has not been tried. It makes no sense to think it would have identical impact on the election as being in power for a full term.

      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 months ago

        Trump is actually too stupid to comprehend what policies he’s supposed to be discussing. I like when he explained recently “a tariff is a tax on a foreign country!”. What a moron. It’s sad that the GOO came up with such a complete cretin as their candidate again.