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Republican Joni Ernst pledges to impeach Joe Biden if he’s elected

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After spending months complaining that Democrats wanted to impeach President Donald Trump from the moment he came down the escalator, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is now saying it’s time to impeach former Vice President Joe Biden.

The Iowa caucus hasn’t even been held yet, much less any primary elections, but Republicans are already lining up to impeach Biden. In a Bloomberg News interview, Ernst ignored that even Trump hasn’t indicted Biden for what he’s alleging.

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“I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened,” Ernst said. “Joe Biden should be very careful what he’s asking for because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people, right the day after he would be elected would be saying, ‘Well, we’re going to impeach him.’”

To impeach Biden, Republicans would have to pass articles of impeachment through the House, where they don’t currently hold the majority. Ernst’s plot would require not only winning her own 2020 reelection but winning back all of the seats the House lost in 2018.

Ernst joined with other Republicans voting against the majority of her voters who wanted witnesses to appear in the impeachment trial in the Senate.

Ernst is the third-least popular U.S. senator the Morning Consult poll ranked. She has only a 37 percent approval rating among Iowa voters. The survey showed 42 percent of Iowans disapprove of her as a senator.

The irony wasn’t lost on those seeing the story:

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Read the full interview with Ernst at Bloomberg News.

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Iowa crowd goes wild as MSNBC’s Mika denounces Joni Ernst as a ‘useful idiot’

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MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski drew another round of cheers at an Iowa coffee shop by denouncing Sen. Joni Ernst and other Republican senators as "useful idiots."

The "Morning Joe" co-host mocked President Donald Trump as a "stone-cold idiot" for confusing Kansas with Missouri, drawing a round of cheers from customers at Java Joe's in Des Moines, and she got another round by taking a shot at their junior senator for suggesting Joe Biden should be impeached, if elected.

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Lindsey Graham faces revolt from GOP lawmakers over plan to investigate whistleblower: WaPo reporter

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Appearing on CNN's "New Day" on Monday morning, Washington Post congressional reporter Rachael Bade claimed some Republican lawmakers are balking at a plan by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to go after the whistleblower whose report led to the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

 Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) served notice that the Republican-majority Senate Intelligence Committee will investigate the whistleblower, stating, "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," before adding, “I want to understand how all this crap started.”

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‘We knew what would happen’ under Trump — but the media just played along: CNN commentator Wajahat Ali

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Last week, the right-wing rage machine seized on a viral CNN clip that featured former Republican strategist Rick Wilson and commentator Wajahat Ali, who appeared to mock Donald Trump's supporters for their general ignorance and slavish devotion to their leader. Host Don Lemon started laughing so hard he had to put his head on his desk. Trump and his followers in the conservative media, needless to say, were not amused.

For all of Trump and his supporters' complaints about "political correctness" and how liberals are "snowflakes," they're the ones constantly in search of safe spaces. Trump called Lemon, not for the first time, "the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!)" Ivanka Trump piggybacked on her father's complaints with: "You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation's 'Real Elites' is disgusting."

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