House Republicans are on firm ground with voters Tuesday as they consider impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to protect the U.S. border.
While the GOP has a tiny three-vote margin to work with, a new poll on the impeachment could give House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his leadership team arguing points for moving to oust Mayorkas.
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets hours before the House takes up the proposal, 52% of likely voters endorsed impeachment, while 36% rejected it.
The vote comes at a tumultuous time for America’s border politics. In virtually every poll, the topic now challenges the economy as the top concern.
Driving the debate has been President Joe Biden’s efforts to snuff out all border protection actions put in place by former President Donald Trump. That campaign, led by Mayorkas, has created the worst immigration crisis the nation has ever faced and led to millions of illegal immigrants pouring over the border and into major cities, the suburbs, and even rural America.
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The crisis hasn’t gone unnoticed by the nation. Rasmussen, for example, found in the new survey that 82% believe that immigration is a “serious” problem in the country. Majorities of every single demographic tested in the survey said the crisis is serious.
But they might not put Mayorkas’s face on the problem. While 42% said they had an unfavorable impression of the Homeland chief versus 30% who had a favorable view, nearly a third said they had no impression of him.
