Americans Don't Want Another Impeachment Fight
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In a nation fatigued by political battles, voters across the political spectrum have come to see their elected leaders as captivated by their own partisan fights and inattentive to the nation’s most pressing needs. The impeachment inquiry, coming as the nation barrels toward a likely government shutdown due to congressional infighting, is just the latest cause for cynicism.
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After this week, it isn’t hard to see why voters view impeachment as a distraction. The government is due to run out of money after Sept. 30 because lawmakers have been unable to agree on a budget for the next year. The prospect of a partial government shutdown grew more likely this week after House GOP leaders failed to unify their party around spending bills, prompting McCarthy to send lawmakers home on Thursday to draw up new plans.
The House GOP impeachment effort risks turning off the independent voters Republicans need to win back the White House. Just over half of voters, some 52%, oppose impeaching Biden, and 41% support it, a Wall Street Journal poll found last month. While overwhelming shares of Republicans support impeachment and Democrats oppose it, independents on the whole side with the opponents, the poll found, with 51% against impeachment and 37% in favor.
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With some Republicans wary of a voter backlash to impeachment in political swing districts, McCarthy has started the inquiry without putting the question to the House for a vote. One Republican, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has criticized the push for an inquiry as built on “an imagined history” of developments related to Biden and his son. “What’s missing, despite years of investigation, is the smoking gun” that connects Biden to any wrongdoing, he wrote.
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