Mike Huckabee

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Former Republican Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee last week warned that if Republicans move to impeach President Joe Biden without any Democratic votes, it could spell a “political disaster” for the party.

Huckabee said “there’s no point” impeaching Biden in the House while knowing that the case is not going to go anywhere in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.

“All it becomes is a political disaster,” Huckabee told Real America’s Voice’s “Just The News No Noise.”

Huckabee added that the impeachment inquiry into Biden underway in the House should continue but warned that until some Democrats come on board with impeaching him, the GOP should emphasize to Americans that they are worse off with Biden in the White House.

“Until that happens, the best thing Republicans can do is keep dribbling out the information of Joe’s ties to the Communist Chinese Party and business deals but focus on a message that gets us elected and reminding people how much better off they were when Donald Trump was president than they have been since Joe Biden has taken the reins,” he said.

Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008 and 2016, has already thrown his support behind Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential nomination contest.

I don’t agree with much of anything that Huckabee says but on this – he is right.  It reminds me of the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair in the late 1990s. The public had sympathy for the way Clinton was treated and saw the Republicans as wasting tax-paying money.

Tony

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