Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made it clear on Wednesday that President Biden will not be impeached for his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal as some in the Republican party have been clamouring to do.
For McConnell, an impeachment of Biden, a Democratic president is a non-starter since Democrats control both chambers of Congress.
Asked if he would support an impeachment of Biden for his handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, McConnell said: “Well, look, the president is not going to be removed from office. There’s a Democratic House, a narrowly Democratic Senate. That’s not going to happen.”
“There isn’t going to be an impeachment,” he added, according to the Hill.
McConnell instead pointed to the mid-term elections next year where he hopes Republicans will regain the majorities in Congress and be a check on the Biden administration. “In this country, the report card you get is every two years.”
“Most of you are not political junkies, you’ve got better things to do than that,” McConnell continued. “But you’ll be interested in one statistic: only twice in American history – only twice – has the president gained seats in Congress two years into the first term.”
Trump allies in the House and Senate have been calling for Biden to be impeached. Florida Sen. Rick Scott went as far to call for Biden to be removed from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. Sens. John Hawley (R-MO) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have called for Biden to resign.
