Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) issued a warning Wednesday that the impeachment inquiry into President Biden could prompt voters to penalize the Republican party if they move too far too fast.
“If we get too far ahead of the evidence, then yeah, I think the American people will penalize us,” Vance told Axios political reporter Sophia Cai during the outlet’s News Shapers event Wednesday morning.
Vance said that the core mission of the probe is to deliver justice, but only if the evidence supports the cause.
“I think we have to recognize that if the evidence suggests that we can do something here, that we have to do it,” Vance said. “We can’t let politics or other things sort of distract us from the core mission. And the core mission, if at the end of the day in this proceeding, is to do justice.”
The Ohio senator also said that if the upper chamber received the impeachment articles, it would not be a distraction from other priorities.
“I don’t think it’s a distraction; I think fundamentally the Senate will have an important constitutional duty at that time, and I plan to do it,” he said.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) directed three House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry last week, and its first hearing is scheduled for next week.
President Biden said last week that the House GOP was determined to impeach him regardless of the facts of the case, but that his focus was on matters of greater importance.
“Well, I tell you what, I don’t know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me,” Biden said. “Now, best I can tell they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government.”
Source: The Hill
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