Many House Republicans privately say that it appears to be a foregone conclusion Biden will face an impeachment inquiry in the fall and could be just the fourth US president ever charged with high crimes or misdemeanors and that it might all happen by years end . Republicans say if they don’t move forward with a formal inquiry now it will create the impression that House Republicans have essentially cleared Biden of any wrongdoing over his ties to his son Hunter Bidens business entanglements allegations they say show a paytoplay scheme when the elder Biden was vice president . But the accusations alone they say are worthy of opening up a formal impeachment inquiry which McCarthy and top Republicans argue would strengthen the Houses oversight power in legal battles to obtain more documents and testimony potentially from Hunter Biden himself . McCarthy has also emphasized to his members that opening an inquiry is not the same as voting for articles of impeachment a key messaging distinction that could help convince onthefence moderates to back an inquiry . But getting the votes alone in the narrowly divided House wont be an easy task given that McCarthy can only afford to lose four GOP votes if all Democrats oppose the effort . Even if the House were to impeach Biden convicting him and removing him from office almost certainly wont happen in the Senate where there are members of the Democratic caucus and votes are needed for a conviction . But even if the impeachment proceedings were to convict him, it won’t pass the Senate . In recent weeks some senior Republicans have been conducting . The Republican donors have expressed nervousness about whether that is a ‘hot-hot-headed’ Democrats expect similar efforts to take shape . The Congressional Integrity Project has launched a paid digital ad campaigns to take place in the House of impeachment . Democrats expect to be similar to a similar effort to .
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