Opinion by Greg Sargent: How a coming GOP campaign opens a window on the land of right-wing make-believe.
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GOP pollster Whit Ayres, who has long urged his party to moderate on immigration, says it remains unclear whether Republicans can produce evidence of impeachable offenses. If not, Ayres suggests, impeachment will backfire. “If they’ve got no hard evidence,” Ayres told me, “it will just drive an image of the Republican Party that is very much at odds with the kind of party that can win elections in swing states or win a majority of the electorate in a presidential campaign.”
What’s more, Greene’s suggestion that this impeachment push was necessary to keep McCarthy in the good graces of the far right is revealing: it’s another sign that McCarthy and the GOP are beholden to extremists. Democrats will highlight this throughout any impeachment proceedings. “We need to hammer this home,” Rep. Eric Swalwell , a member of the Judiciary Committee, told me. Speaking of Greene, Swalwell added: “The only reason she voted for paying America’s bills is that she was going to get this chaos journey of impeaching Mayorkas that she always wanted.”All this carries risks for Democrats.
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