Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Sunday that the Republicans are facing “a lot of pressure” to vote to impeach President Joe Biden if they retake the House in the midterm elections.
Mace made the comments during an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press when moderator Chuck Todd asked if she expected an impeachment vote against the 46th president if her party won back the lower chamber of Congress in November. While the centrist Republican, who voted against impeaching former President Donald Trump last year, said her GOP colleagues were “considering” the move, she made clear that she would prefer to focus her attention on kitchen table issues rather than political spectacles.
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“I believe there’s pressure on the Republicans to put that forward and have that vote. I think that’s what some folks are considering,” Mace said, evoking a “wow” in response from a visibly surprised Todd.
Her prediction comes almost a week after Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a frequent critic of the former president, warned that Trump-aligned House Republicans would try to impeach the current commander in chief “every week” if they retook the majority, as is widely expected to happen in November.
Kinzinger, who is leaving office after this term because state redistricting made his seat reliably blue, was referring to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has filed numerous impeachment articles against Biden, and several others, including Reps. Bob Gibbs (R-OH) and Bob Good (R-VA).
Their efforts had no chance of success with the chamber under Democratic control.
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Asked by Todd how she would vote if impeachment articles against Biden were brought to the floor next year, Mace said her intention was to “do the right thing,” look at the evidence, and vote constitutionally before vowing to not take part in a GOP-led witch hunt against a Democratic president.
“I will not vote for impeachment of any president if I feel that due process has been stripped away for anyone, and I typically vote constitutionally regardless of who’s in power,” she said. “I want to do the right thing for the long term because this isn’t just about today, tomorrow, this year’s election. This is about the future of democracy. This is about protecting our Constitution.”
