Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) warned House Republicans against allowing the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to become a “trojan horse” that causes them to ignore key issues affecting voters.
DeSantis said that, while he thinks an investigation into the “corrupt” Biden family is “justifiable,” he believes Congress — particularly House Republicans leading the inquiry — “run the risk of doing an inquiry that doesn’t necessarily lead anywhere.”
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“When I’m going through Iowa, Republican voters obviously are not fond of Joe Biden. Yes, they’re concerned about Hunter and all this money. But they’re more concerned about what’s happening at our border. They’re more concerned about what’s happening with the economy,” DeSantis in an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press aired Sunday.
“Make sure you’re not ignoring all these other issues,” DeSantis continued. “And don’t use that inquiry as kind of a Trojan horse to not then meet your responsibilities on all these other things.”
WATCH: Speaker Johnson says he has the votes to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden. @RonDeSantis says Republicans shouldn’t use that inquiry as a “Trojan horse.”
“There’s a feeling out here that they’re not focused on the key issues that [voters] wanted to see addressed.” pic.twitter.com/6y6NSMuFcV
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 3, 2023
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced on Sept. 12 that the House would open an impeachment inquiry into Biden without a formal vote, despite stating earlier in the month that an inquiry would come from a floor vote and “not through a declaration by one person.”
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House Republicans began holding impeachment inquiry hearings in late September, with the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees taking point on the inquiry.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told House GOP members in a closed-door meeting this week that the House will likely vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into the president within the next few weeks.
