Partisan Impeachment Effort Consumes Democrats Ahead of 2020

From Capitol Hill to the 2020 presidential primary, impeachment continues to be an unmitigated disaster for Democrats.

Just a few minutes before the fourth Democratic debate started, Nancy Pelosi held a press conference to announce there would be no formal vote on impeachment. This came after her vulnerable members spent the two-week recess receiving massive public backlash across the country.

Then, as the presidential debate kicked off, the Democrats’ baseless impeachment effort dominated the conversation. Every candidate on the stage tripped over one another to express their support, even if it was in direct contradiction to their previous statements on impeachment.

Take Joe Biden for example: In 1998, Biden urged Congress to ensure the impeachment process would be “based upon principle, not politics.” He went on to warn against impeachment becoming “partisan attacks on the president, charged with animosities generated by all manner of prior struggle and disagreements over Executive Branch decisions, over policy disputes, over resentment at losing the prior election, and God only knows what else.”
 
Last night, Biden did exactly what he warned against decades ago. He launched partisan attacks against President Trump to justify impeachment, calling him “The most corrupt president in modern history, and I think in all of our history.”

Seeking to overturn the 2016 election, Democrats have tried to impeach the president since the day he took office. This week fully exposed the fact that they lack both public support and the votes needed in the House for a formal vote on impeachment.