Biden impeachment will 'backfire' against GOP and be 'good news' for his reelection: journalist

14 December 2023

Some recent polls on a hypothetical Donald Trump/Joe Biden rematch in 2024 have Democrats worried, especially in light of the disturbing Project 2025 agenda reported by the New York Times the Washington Post and others. Trump is way ahead of other 2024 GOP presidential primary candidates in countless polls, and some pollsters are finding Trump with narrow single-digit leads over Biden if the former president becomes the nominee.

But The New Republic's Michael Tomasky is confident that Biden will turn his reelection campaign around, and he argues that House Republicans will help him do that by impeaching him.

On Wednesday, December 13, House Republicans voted unanimously to proceed with an impeachment inquiry against Biden. Tomasky, in an article published on December 13, predicts that the inquiry will lead to House Republicans voting "yes" on articles of impeachment, followed by a trial in the U.S. Senate — where Biden will be acquitted.

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On X, formerly Twitter, CNN's Arlette Saenz reports that Biden's campaign is "seizing on impeachment inquiry for fundraising." According to Saenz, an anti-impeachment fundraising e-mail sent by Vice President Kamala Harris "is campaign's best performing email of Dec. & second best of Q4, per source. It's also the best performing email signed by Harris of cycle & campaign will send to wider list today."

Tomasky lays out some reasons why impeachment will be "good news" for Biden.

Tomasky predicts, "The 118th Congress will impeach Joe Biden, a completely blameless Joe Biden; a Joe Biden whose only known 'crime' has been to make the occasional bad judgment in defense of his deeply troubled son but who, in 50 years of public life, has never once been credibly accused of pocketing a dirty dollar.… The good news is that this will backfire like a badly tuned 1975 Pontiac Grand Am. No matter what the House does under its new management, the Senate will never convict and remove Biden from office."

The journalist adds, "They need 67 votes to do that, and I'd be surprised if they have more than 40 — it may be considerably fewer than that. Every Senate Democrat will vote against conviction; that will seal the deal right there."

Tomasky argues that Biden's impeachment will be even more vacuous than President Bill Clinton's impeachment 25 years ago.

"I'm old enough to remember how badly the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton backfired against the Republicans," Tomasky writes. "At least then, they could point to a semblance of wrongdoing — though it was something more distasteful than criminal. Today, they have nothing. …… Bring this impeachment on. It will fill the news, expose these cranks, reveal their profound cynicism — and do more to reelect Joe Biden than anything Biden himself could do."

Read Michael Tomasky's full New Republic article at this link.

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