Senate Republicans Say Schumer Fears Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Will Doom Biden’s Re-Election, Democrats’ Hill Control

Published on April 9, 2024

Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will block the impeachment trial of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday for fear it will prevent President Joe Biden’s re-election and cause Democrats to lose control of the Senate, GOP lawmakers said Tuesday in a fiery news conference. “This issue is so toxic to Senate Democrats, to House Democrats, and to Joe Biden that they do not want this to be the issue of the day,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said in the opening statement of the conference. “Tabling these impeachment articles is a nuclear option and it will necessitate some kind of nuclear retaliation much as when Harry Reid went nuclear in 2013 to get [President Barack Obama’s] federal judge nominees moving forward,” he said....

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