Polling by the Daily Mail has found that a majority of Iowa Republicans want President Joe Biden to be impeached and think modern America is like Nazi Germany.
“More than three-quarters of Republicans in Iowa want Congress to immediately start the impeachment of President Joe Biden over links to his son Hunter’s shady foreign business deals,” the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
“The survey conducted by J.L. Partners found that 77 percent of GOP supporters who are likely to attend January’s highly-anticipated Iowa state caucuses want the president investigated over his family finances,” the outlet added.
However, the poll also found that Iowa Republicans are at least a little worried that impeaching Biden could distract from the upcoming 2024 presidential election, as well as from more pertinent issues like the economy.
These poll results come only a week or so after Devon Archer, a former business associate of President Biden’s son Hunter, testified to Congress that the Biden family had collected $20+ million from contacts in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
‘He had dinner’: Newly released transcript from Devon Archer torpedoes big lie about the Big Guy https://t.co/2DVBgQSoLH via @americanwire_
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) August 4, 2023
The poll results pose a quandary for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who must decide whether to push ahead with impeachment or listen to the cautionary advice of those like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing,” McConnell said in a New York Times interview this week.
“Impeachment ought to be rare. This is not good for the country,” he added.
According to the Daily Mail’s poll results, Trump supporters disagree the most.
“Among Trump supporters, the proportion of those who want an immediate start rockets to 95 percent. That drops to 79 percent among supporters of Ron DeSantis and 74 percent with backers of Tim Scott,” the Daily Mail notes.
James Johnson, the co-founder of J.L. Partners, believes voters will ultimately reward whoever does decide to impeach.
“Speaker McCarthy is already feeling the pressure from his members to impeach President Biden – now the voters who will crown the winner of the first caucus of 2024 want to see Biden impeached too,” he told the Daily Mail.
“The signs are that voters will reward those who hit Biden hard and push for his impeachment – though candidates should be careful not to suggest impeachment would be at the expense of all other issues,” he added.
The Daily Mail’s polling also found that a whopping 57 percent of Iowa Republicans believe “[t]he lawlessness of the persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.”
The poll question was taken directly from former President Trump’s Truth Social social network.
“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,” he announced through the network on Aug. 1st:
The Daily Mail notes that this “comparison was quickly condemned as offensive and inaccurate by Jewish groups.” This is true.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, called the comparison “factually incorrect, completely inappropriate and flat out offensive.”
“As we have said time and again, such comparisons have no place in politics and are shameful,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“Please sit with a Holocaust survivor and let them share their story. Just listen. Then show them the respect they deserve and honor the memory of the six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis by never making a comparison like this again,” the American Jewish Committee likewise said in a statement.
And yet a majority of Iowa Republicans evidently believe that the statement by the Trump campaign accurately reflects life in the United States. Why? Because many conservatives believe America has effectively turned into a banana republic where only enemies of the party in power are ever held accountable.
As proof, they point to the lack of prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat who did many of the same things Trump’s been accused of doing yet was never indicted:
Every top official with the Clinton campaign, FBI and CIA knew she lost yet continued to lie that Russia hacked the election and that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin.
The Russiagate lie was far more consequential than Trump’s. Where’s the indictment? https://t.co/dYdSVyKhIx
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) August 2, 2023
According to Johnson, the co-founder of J.L. Partners, these particular poll results show that the Republican Party as a whole is still very loyal to Trump.
“We have seen Republicans say Trump is being pursued unfairly, and people agree that it the series of indictments are a ‘witch hunt.’ This poll shows that goes even further: Republicans also think the Department of Justice is acting in the same way that the Nazis did in the 1930s,” he told the Daily Mail.
“However shocking that may sound, this is another statistic in a long line of others that demonstrates the loyalty of many of Trump’s voters — and how the indictments have only emboldened their support rather than undermined it,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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