GOP might impeach Biden because 'it makes our base feel better': Republican insider

Although the Republican-led investigations into President Joe Biden have still not turned up any evidence that he used his office to help his son Hunter Biden's business dealings, Politico reports that the party is ready to barrel ahead with impeaching him anyway.

The problem for the GOP, reports Politico, is that there might not be enough votes for impeachment on the Republican side given that Republicans who represent districts that Biden won in 2020 are saying they still have not seen enough to justify impeachment.

After factoring in the GOP's razor-thin majority in the House -- which could become even thinner if the chamber votes to expel scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) -- and it's highly unclear that an impeachment vote would succeed.

One unnamed GOP lawmaker acknowledged to the publication that "any kind of an impeachment puts our Biden people in a really tough spot" and said that "impeachment hurts us politically."

Nonetheless, he said that such an effort "makes our base feel better," which is why it would likely continue.

GOP investigators are looking to interview Hunter Biden in the coming weeks with an eye on wrapping up an impeachment probe by January, despite the fact that even some House Republicans are acknowledging that they are unlikely to uncover any smoking gun evidence by then.