Republican attempts in the House to impeach President Joe Biden created cracks in the convention and gave the president a chance to appear above the political fray the same week his son Hunter Biden reached a plea deal for alleged federal taxes and gun-related offenses.

But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his allies stand by their resolve to delay an impeachment vote, a victory for Biden, after censuring Rep. Adam Shiff (D-CA) for his role in investigating former President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

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Republicans like strategist Cesar Conda, former leader of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and founding partner of lobbying firm Navigators Global, backed McCarthy’s reaction to Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) impeachment decision, despite the optics.

“Democrats disparaged the president’s impeachment [and] turned it into little more than censorship,” he told the Washington Examiner. “The indictment has little more than a tool to energize the base on both sides. “

A House Republican aide added that Congress has a vital duty to hold the executive branch of government “accountable” and that impeachment is a “solemn” tool of congressional authority that cannot be used “in any way. “

“I don’t think management has been pressured in a way that reflects reality,” he said.

But while it wasn’t easy for McCarthy to redirect Boebert’s articles of impeachment accusing Biden of major crimes and misdemeanors for his handling of the southern border to the appropriate House committees, which are required to act, Republicans were his worst enemy, according to the former vice president of the Brookings Institution and director of governance studies. Darrell West.

“They want to say Biden is excessive and partisan, but some in the Republican Party need to impeach the president,” he said. “Their efforts were disorganized and chaotic and led to fights within the caucus. It distracts Biden and gives the impression that Republicans don’t have a coherent strategy. “

The White House suggests that spokesman Ian Sams confirmed: “Instead of competing with President Biden on answers to the situations that matter most to the rest of Americans, such as creating jobs, cutting costs, and strengthening physical care, House Republicans are staging baseless political stunts that do nothing to genuine people and only serve to call the attention.

West also wasn’t sure how the public would understand the rise of Republicans in the House, saying the electorate is tired of impeachment proceedings “unless something serious happens. “

Republicans were “wise” to pursue impeachment, according to David Greenberg, a professor of history, journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, who described Boebert’s move as “pretty ridiculous. “

“But it would have been better to cover it up before it was covered up through the media,” Greenberg said. “If you remember, there were Democrats in the ’80s who tried to impeach Reagan on Iran-Contra. Some Democrats tried to impeach George W. Bush over Iraq. The leaders never let him go anywhere and prudently. “

“It’s not going for Republicans to politically communicate as if Biden is the time for [Richard] Nixon or Trump,” he added.

Boebert presented his move in a streamlined procedure because he considered it privileged, calling it for the first time in 24 years a “Republican-led majority in the House” that “moves forward” with impeachment against an existing president.

“Joseph R. Biden Jr. abused the powers of the president of the United States,” he said.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) backed Boebert, saying Biden “refuses to stick to the United States. “

But Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), hours after her conference, protested to House Republicans that Schiff, the member who was reprimanded in this way, criticized her.

“None of this is serious — the process, the intentions of the resolution’s sponsor, the impeachment case, a fucking single thing,” he said.

The articles about Boebert’s impeachment coincide with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) resolution to censure Schiff, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, after which House Democrats surrounded him and shouted “Shame on you!”to McCarthy.

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“Reminder: Schiff used his position on the Intelligence Committee to lie about the Russia collusion hoax, lie about Hunter Biden’s laptop, and lie about not speaking to an impeachment whistleblower,” Republican National Committee spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters.

The RNC also amplified to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), that in addition to an IRS whistleblower alleging there were “political considerations” in the federal agency’s investigation into Hunter Biden, there were several whistleblowers “describing how Biden’s Justice Department intervened and quashed a crusade against Joe Biden’s son. “