Joe Biden has not been supportive of such a move worried that the US Senate doesn’t have enough votes to convict …
Most of the others running for the Democratic nomination for President have supported such a move…
With Elizabeth Warren breathing down on him?
He IS beginning to move a bit to the left….
This move in a speech in New Hampshire shows his move grab more lefties into his supporters …
And to come on stronger then he has up to now…
It does appear that Joe Biden IS trying to get ‘his shit’ together finally….
Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday called for President Trump’s impeachment for the first time, blistering Mr. Trump as a threat to American democracy and accusing him of “shooting holes in the Constitution.”
Escalating his language in an effort to rebut Mr. Trump’s unfounded claims about his actions with Ukraine, Mr. Biden set aside months of restraint to demand Congress sanction the president.
“To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,” the former vice president told supporters here.
Mr. Biden linked Mr. Trump’s false claims to an idea promulgated by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. “You say it long enough, often enough, people may believe it,” he said, invoking Goebbels by name.
In his clearest and most direct call to date for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Joe Biden on Wednesday said the president “indicted” then “convicted himself” when he asked foreign nations to investigate his Democratic rival.
Biden in a lengthy speech laid out Trump’s actions in recent weeks, accusing him of trying to extort Ukraine and condemning Trump’s call from the White House lawn that China to investigate Biden.
“He’s shooting holes in the Constitution and we cannot let him get away with it,” Biden said as a crowd of supporters erupted into applause. “This isn’t a game, this is deadly serious.”
The comments from the Democratic presidential hopeful came a day after the White House said in a scathing eight-page letter that it would not cooperate with the inquiry into the Ukraine scandal on the grounds that it lacked merit….
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jamesb says
Hmmmmmm?
Do you think President Trump should be impeached and removed from office, or not?
Yes 51% (+9 since July)
No 43% (-7)
FOX News Poll
jamesb says
From Fox News….
Former Vice President Joe Biden was interrupted by environmental activists during a campaign event Wednesday evening in the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House.
Holding signs that read “This is an emergency” and “Fight for the Green New Deal,” the protesters also had some pointed chants — “Act on climate” and “Joe Biden is not a climate change champion” — during Biden’s campaign stop at McIntyre Ski Area in New Hampshire’s largest city.
The protesters were quickly drowned out by loud chants of “We love Joe” from the crowd. Biden remained silent during the brief interruption….
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