The publication notes that in the event of losing the election, Biden may face impeachment, since leading Republicans have already announced their intention to initiate it.
In particular, in January, Republican Senator Ted Cruz said that there would be “many grounds” for Biden’s impeachment. And in April, his spokesman Ken Buck said the House Judiciary Committee “will hold hearings to determine whether impeachment is appropriate.”
According to a May University of Massachusetts poll, 68% of Republicans and 66% of conservatives support impeachment.
Articles of impeachment can be passed by a simple majority in the House of Representatives, but the president can only be removed by a two-thirds majority in the Senate. This has never happened before, and it is unlikely that the Republicans will receive the required number of seats in 2023.
However, former President Donald Trump has been impeached twice – in 2020 and 2021 – and has been acquitted by the Senate both times. Therefore, if the Republicans win the elections, nothing will prevent them from initiating the procedure in the House of Representatives, even if the chances are slim.
John Owens, an emeritus professor of US government and politics at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in Britain, said the Democrats will retain the Senate and the House of Representatives after the election.
At the same time, according to Robert Singh, a professor at the Birkbeck Department of Politics at the University of London, if the Republicans regain the House of Representatives, but not the Senate, then any attempt to impeach Biden will look like a political “score set.”
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