Most American voters say Joe Biden has likely committed “serious crimes and misdemeanors” since taking office as president that would warrant the Democrat’s impeachment, according to a survey.
The poll comes as Republican congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced articles of impeachment against the president over the migrant crisis on the southern border.
About 53 percent of respondents said they believed Biden had committed criminal offenses while in office, including 38 percent calling it “highly likely.”
That’s four points more since November, according to Rasmussen reports.
“Negative views on the Biden scandals have definitely gained momentum,” said Rasmussen’s top researcher Mark Mitchell.
No president has ever been impeached as a direct result of impeachment. Richard Nixon, resigned before he could be impeached. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate. Donald Trump was impeached twice — and acquitted twice by senators
The results were partisan: Republicans see presidential misconduct more likely than Democrats.
Still, there was better news for the president.
Two-thirds of voters said they didn’t think Congress would take any action to impeach Biden, and only 28 percent said proceedings were likely.
“Actually, no one thinks the 118th Republican Congress is going to pursue impeachment,” Mitchell added.
House Republicans are investigating Biden, his son Hunter and other family members who allege they were involved in a bribery scheme involving foreigners.
Those allegations relate to Biden’s time as vice president in the Obama administration.
Survey respondents were asked about misconduct since Biden was sworn in more than two years ago.
The pollsters didn’t specify what wrongdoing Biden was accused of — but the investigation comes as Georgia firebrand Greene introduced articles of impeachment against the president over the border crisis.
Announcing her move on Thursday, Greene said the “head of this last executive branch of America that has been working since January 20, 2021 to systematically destroy this country.”
She accused the president of “refusing to maintain the southern border” and allowing 6 million undocumented migrants from 160 countries to “invade our country.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressman, wants President Joe Biden, a Democrat, removed from the White House
Greene accuses Biden of failing to secure the border and allowing an invasion of migrants. Pictured: A barbed wire fence and the border fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Biden has failed to properly supply the guards working at the border and to allow traffickers to smuggle fentanyl and other deadly drugs into the country, Greene added.
Immigration to the US has been a matter of division between Republicans and Democrats for decades.
But the increased flows of undocumented migrants in recent years and the end of pandemic-era border restrictions this month have further heightened tensions.
Greene’s allegations probably won’t gain enough traction, even among her fellow House Republicans, to seriously threaten the president.
Once rare, impeachment proceedings have become increasingly common in recent years.
The constitutional procedure, established by America’s founders to prevent a president from abusing his powers, says top officials can be removed for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and offenses.”
No president has ever been impeached as a direct result of impeachment.
Richard Nixon, resigned before he could be impeached. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate.
Donald Trump was impeached twice — and acquitted twice by senators.