DeSantis wants House GOP to focus on issues, not Biden impeachment

GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis suggested Sunday that House Republicans should focus on issues voters care about instead of an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

DeSantis told NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” that while he believes the Biden family is “corrupt” and that opening an impeachment inquiry is “justifiable,” the effort will likely be a dead end. He said House Republicans have been ignoring border security, the economy and the “overstepping” of federal agencies.

“I think they run the risk of doing an inquiry that doesn't necessarily lead anywhere while they've been ignoring a lot of the problems that our voters are talking about,” DeSantis said.

Three GOP-led House committees have been investigating Biden and his family’s business dealings for months. Their findings pushed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to open an impeachment inquiry in September — a move that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has also backed since stepping into the leadership role.

House Republicans plan to hold a vote to formalize their Biden impeachment inquiry within the next two weeks. But an impeachment effort lacks support in the Democrat-led Senate, where Senate Republicans have also been signaling opposition to the move.

DeSantis reiterated that House Republicans need to tackle other issues concurrently.

“And so if you're doing the inquiry, which, again, I think is justifiable, you also have to be addressing all these other issues,” DeSantis said on Sunday. “Clearly, on the budget, there's been no progress on that.”

“So, make sure you're not ignoring all these other issues. And don't use that inquiry as kind of a Trojan horse to not then meet your responsibilities on all these other things,” he added.