GOP lawmaker says Republicans talk a big game on impeachment but 'don't have guts' to vote
According to a GOP lawmaker speaking to CNN Friday, the months-long Republican effort to impeach President Joe Biden will likely end without a vote because his fellow Republicans "don't have the guts" to follow through.
“Yeah, that’s not gonna happen, but I wish we would vote on it regardless,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said when asked about the status of the impeachment effort.
Critics of Republicans widely agreed that the eight-hour impeachment inquiry hearing that took place on Wednesday ended without any notable bombshells in regards to claims that Biden financially benefitted from the business dealings of his son, Hunter.
According to Burchett, Republicans talk a big game in public when it comes to impeachment but have a very different tune in private.
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"I'm willing to vote on it," he told CNN’s Jim Acosta. "I wish these other members would vote on it so they can quit saying up here that they're not for it and then go home and tell all their folks at the Reagan Day dinners and Lincoln Day dinners, 'Dadgummit, I'm for impeachment, I'm gonna vote,' but they don’t have the guts to do it."
As HuffPost pointed out, Burchett made similar comments earlier this week.
Speaking to NewsNation after the hearing Wednesday, Burchett said, “We’re not gonna have the votes. That’s clearly the case," adding, “And I don’t think we ever did.”
Other Republicans have voiced similar concerns, one being Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) who told Fox News last week that Republicans have "laid out a good case for impeaching," but "I just don’t think we have the will to do it.”
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