McCarthy’s vow to open Biden impeachment probe puts vulnerable California Republicans in a tough spot
LA TimesReps. Elise Stefanik and Mike Garcia talk with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, right, in January during the negotiations that led to McCarthy’s election as House speaker. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he is directing a House committee to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. But the GOP’s narrow majority in the House is at risk in the 2024 election, and the move toward impeaching Biden — especially without compelling evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors — will put the chamber’s most vulnerable Republicans in a tough spot. Impeachment is unpopular in the 18 districts that Biden won in 2020 that are held by House Republicans, according to an August poll commissioned by the Congressional Integrity Project, a Democratic-aligned nonprofit. But MAGA Republican leaders like McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene want to focus on their bogus impeachment of President Biden, even though they have no evidence.