Biden impeachment inquiry may keep 'MAGA wackos happy' — but 'will backfire': GOP analyst

As House GOPers aim to move towards a President Joe Biden impeachment this week, MSNBC's Katie Phang spoke with 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh's former campaign manager Lucy Caldwell about how the outcome of the effort could impact the party.

"House Republicans introduced a resolution on Thursday to authorize an inquiry into President Joe Biden," Phang said. "The House Rules committee is to take it up on Tuesday in a couple of days. So the earliest that any vote could happen is Wednesday. Do you think this move will backfire for Republicans going into 2024?"

Caldwell replied, "I think it will backfire. Frankly, this is just a political reality of an impeachment inquiry in an election year. impeachment inquiries into an incumbent president tend to cause base voters to rally around the incumbent president. This is obviously a ridiculous impeachment inquiry that is baseless from we can tell. But we do have a recent history for this."

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She continued, "In 2020, in the impeachment inquiries leading up to it all of 2019 and 2020 leading up to the Republican primary in 2020 and the general election — that actually warmed Republican voters to Trump. And so I think that when Democratic base voters, including those who voted for Biden last cycle, when they see the action that the house is taking, it may be another wake up call to say, 'hey, you might now feel so psyched about what is going on but you're not going to be psyched about what these guys are doing.' So I think it will absolutely backfire on the Republican party. Plus they have a very core base of MAGA right now. So they're trying to thread the needle of keeping the MAGA wackos happy. But it's going to be a challenge and I see it actually working out politically positively for Biden, even though it's very unfortunate for our democracy that this is happening."

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GOP's impeachment inquiry might keep 'MAGA wackos happy' — but 'it will backfire: analystyoutu.be