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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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Arizona sex offender threatened to gun down Adam Schiff after watching Fox News: prosecutors

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An Arizona sex offender was charged with making a threatening phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry.

Jan Peter Meister, a registered sex offender from Tucson, was identified through phone records as the caller who left a threatening message on Schiff's office voicemail, according to court documents.

Police played the message for the 52-year-old Meister, who told investigators he did not remember making the call but admitted that he had gotten drunk, and agreed that must have been him on the recording.

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The Iowa caucus is a massive grift — and both Republicans and Democrats are in on it

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There is still no official winner in Iowa after the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) said they found "inconsistencies" in the three sets of results they were supposed to deliver. This Tuesday, the IDP said the problem was caused by a "coding issue" in its reporting system. Writing for the Daily Beast, Stuart Stevens says the Iowa caucus system is "a nutty system no school would sanction to choose a student body president."

"The Iowa caucus system is one of those ideas that seems sort of charming if you think about it for five minutes — a bunch of neighbors getting together in America’s most literate state, the one that gave us Jean Seberg and The Music Man – and utterly insane if you think about it for ten minutes," Stevens writes. "No secret ballot so you’re standing across from your boss when you vote, no early voting and doors close at 7 pm so if you stop for gas your vote doesn’t count, all in a state that doesn’t remotely resemble the American electorate as a whole."

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The View hosts burst into laughter over Don Jr and Eric Trump’s Iowa caucus conspiracy theories

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"The View" panelists burst into laughter over claims of Iowa election rigging peddled by President Donald Trump's two eldest sons.

The winner of the state's Democratic caucus -- the official start of the 2020 primary season -- remains unclear amid technical and other issues, but Democratic Party officials assured voters that paper ballots remained intact and were being counted.

"Stuff needs to change because it's not working the way that it should," said host Whoopi Goldberg, "and after everything we saw with Stacey Abrams (in Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election), we should be really careful about how we do all of this."

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