Perhaps most worryingly for Republicans, most Americans don’t think an impeachment inquiry into Biden is warranted right now. A GBAO/Fabrizio, Lee & Associates poll for The Wall Street Journal conducted in late August found that 52 percent of Americans oppose impeaching Biden, and only 41 percent are in favor. More recently, a YouGov poll conducted on September 13 found that 41 percent of Americans oppose impeaching Biden, 44 percent are in support and 15 percent don’t know. In early October 2019, when Trump’s first impeachment was getting underway, Americans were more closely divided, according to our polling tracker. And in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, majorities of Americans supported Trump’s impeachment; a slim majority of Americans even consistently supported removing Trump from office before the end of his term.

  •  flatbield   ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) 
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    Feels like “our guy is so bad”, we have to gin up a story that makes “their guy look worse” type of thing. Just surprising that so many people believe in the current Republican stupidity. Never though I would say it, but the majority of the party these days makes Romney, Liz Cheney, John McCain (may he rest in peace), Kristy, Kinzinger, Haley, Hutchinson, George W. Bush, and a few other normal republications start to look wonderful. Pence, not sure I could ever vote for him, but at least he is competent and more or less honest and I respect him for that. The rest seem not so much.