{"id":2028707,"date":"2023-09-11T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-on-biden-impeachment-push-trump-doesnt-want-to-be-only-impeached-candidate-on-ballot\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:11:13","slug":"raskin-on-biden-impeachment-push-trump-doesnt-want-to-be-only-impeached-candidate-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-on-biden-impeachment-push-trump-doesnt-want-to-be-only-impeached-candidate-on-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin: Trump fears being sole impeached candidate on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fraskin-on-biden-impeachment-push-trump-doesnt-want-to-be-only-impeached-candidate-on-ballot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Republicans Push\u2064 for Impeachment of President Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has criticized House \u2063Republicans for their push to impeach President Joe Biden, calling it a &#8220;nonscandal.&#8221; In an interview with NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, Raskin questioned \u200bthe motives behind this move, suggesting that it \u200cmay be an \u200battempt by Donald Trump to avoid being the only impeached candidate on \u200bthe\u2064 ballot.<\/p>\n<h3>Raskin Rejects GOP&#8217;s \u200dInvestigation<\/h3>\n<p>As the ranking member of the \u2063House Oversight Committee, Raskin firmly\u200c stated that \u2064former President Trump was impeached for\u200c valid reasons, particularly for inciting a\u200d violent insurrection. He released a 14-page memo on Monday morning, denouncing Republican efforts to investigate President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, upon the lawmakers&#8217; return \u2063from the August recess.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin criticized House Republicans for diverting their attention from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-violates-ethics-rules-after-failing-to-file-annual-financial-report\/\" title=\"George Santos breaches ethics rules by neglecting to submit annual financial report.\">important legislative work<\/a> and instead focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-on-biden-impeachment-push-trump-doesnt-want-to-be-only-impeached-candidate-on-ballot\/\" title=\"Raskin: Trump fears being sole impeached candidate on ballot\">promoting \u2063baseless conspiracy theories<\/a> about\u2063 President Biden. He described their actions \u200das \u200ban abuse of power\u200b and a\u2064 misuse of\u200b congressional resources.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Raskin emphasized that any comparisons between Joe Biden and \u200dTrump are\u2062 unfounded and\u200d misleading. He argued that such\u2063 comparisons create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oversight-ranking-member-raskin-claims-gops-biden-investigation-is-a-total-bust\/\" title=\"Raskin, Oversight ranking member, deems GOP's Biden investigation a 'complete failure'.\">false moral equivalency<\/a>, \u2063serving only to\u200c boost Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The House \u200cis set to reconvene on Tuesday, and \u200bHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) faces the challenge of addressing a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-on-congress-to-move-forward-on-raising-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Biden Calls On Congress To \u2018Move Forward\u2019 On Raising Debt Ceiling\">potential government shutdown<\/a>\u2063 while also dealing with mounting pressure\u2062 for an\u2064 impeachment inquiry against President Biden\u2064 amidst ongoing Oversight investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) criticized House Republicans for seeking President Joe Biden&#8217;s impeachment based on a &#8220;nonscandal.&#8221; Raskin questioned the motive behind pursuing impeachment, suggesting that Donald Trump&#8217;s potential presidential run might be a factor, as he wouldn&#8217;t want to be the sole candidate on the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}