Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said this week that President Joe Biden will not be impeached or removed from office over his disastrous handling of the Afghanistan troop withdrawal despite efforts by House Republicans to kickstart impeachment proceedings.
Instead, Americans should hold the president accountable at the &#8220;ballot box&#8221; in the 2022 midterm and 2024 presidential elections.
McConnell was largely stating what has been obvious to Republicans, given that the party controls neither the House nor the Senate. To impeach Biden over his Afghanistan debacle, the GOP would need to organize impeachment hearings and a vote on impeachment articles in the House &#8212; currently controlled by Democrats &#8212; and would need to win a subsequent trial in the Senate, which is split 50-50 with the tiebreaker vote going to the Democrat Vice President, Kamala Harris.
&#8220;Well, look the president is not going to be removed from office,&#8221; McConnell admitted.
&#8220;I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box,&#8221; he said, per <a class="class" href="https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1433108460657381380" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>. &#8220;There isn&#8217;t going to be an impeachment.&#8221;
&#8220;His comments have come as House Republicans have been lining up to call for Biden&#8217;s impeachment – although their efforts are likely doomed in the Democratic-controlled House and would face difficult odds in the 50-50 Senate,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9948221/Mitch-McConnell-says-Biden-WONT-impeached-disastrous-Afghan-exit.html">the Daily Mail noted</a>.
Calls for impeachment ramped up Wednesday following a report that Biden spoke with the then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in July, urging Ghani to correct what Biden called a &#8220;perception problem&#8221; in world media that the Taliban was gaining ground in Afghanistan.
&#8220;I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,&#8221; Biden said, per reports. &#8220;And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.&#8221;
Just weeks later, the Taliban would blitz into Kabul, the country&#8217;s capital city, and Ghani would be on the run, having abandoned his country to the Taliban&#8217;s mercy.
Critics now claim that Biden&#8217;s call to Ghani indicates that he knew in July that the Afghan army&#8217;s fight against the Taliban was not going well and that Kabul&#8217;s fall could have been reasonably predicted from available information.
The administration has repeatedly claimed that the Taliban&#8217;s blitz into Kabul was unforeseeable and that the ensuing scramble to evacuate thousands of American passport holders, green card holders, Afghan allies, and their families &#8212; a scramble that was marked by a shocking terror attack that left 13 U.S. service members dead &#8212; was unavoidable. The shortened timeline also limited the Biden administration&#8217;s evacuation capabilities, the president has argued, and as a result, around 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan, trapped behind enemy lines.
In a speech Tuesday, Biden congratulated his administration for a job well done in Afghanistan before laying the blame for the bungled withdrawal at the feet of the previous administration.
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McConnell: Biden Will Not Be Impeached Over Afghanistan, Hold Admin Accountable At ‘Ballot Box’

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wrote a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday asking for a briefing of the “Gang of Eight,” the casual name for the eight congressional leaders briefed on intelligence issues. 
They <a href="https://www.republicanleader.gov/leader-mccarthy-and-leader-mcconnell-request-gang-of-eight-briefing-on-afghanistan-2/">wrote</a> to Biden, saying, “It has been several days since you authorized the U.S. military to enter Afghanistan and conduct an evacuation of U.S. citizens from the country.  Our current understanding is the U.S. military secured Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and is conducting the evacuation.&#8221;
They added, &#8220;It is of the utmost importance that the U.S. Government account for all U.S. citizens in Afghanistan and provide the necessary information and means of departure to all those Americans who desire to leave the country.”
They requested a classified briefing or call next week to discuss various information, including:
<blockquote>
The number and location of U.S. persons currently located in Afghanistan, and the methodology to determine such a number and location;
The Taliban’s security posture inside Kabul and the ability of U.S. persons to safely travel to Hamid Karzai International Airport from inside the city;
The status of discussions with the Taliban to ensure the safety of U.S. persons;
The ability of the U.S. Government to communicate with U.S. persons in country;
The Administration’s plan to evacuate U.S. persons outside of Kabul who cannot travel safely to the city; and
The number of U.S. persons unaccounted for in the country and the potential reasons why such individuals have not been reached.
</blockquote>
They concluded, “We all share in the desire to see Americans safely returned home, and we hope to gain clarity as to the means and methods for accomplishing that goal.”
Biden gave a speech on Wednesday discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and did not take questions from reporters after his remarks. 
According to a Daily Wire/SurveyMonkey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-bidens-job-approval-tumbles-below-50-after-afghanistan-pullout">poll</a>, Biden’s job approval rating has plummeted after the disastrous fallout from his withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. 
“The poll pegged Biden’s job approval rating at 47%, just two points higher than his disapproval rating. In mid-July, Biden was averaging a job approval rating of 52% with 43% disapproving, according to RealClearPolitics. Biden’s nine-point advantage has shrunk to just two points in a matter of weeks,” The Daily Wire reported. 
“Support among Americans for Biden’s pull out of Afghanistan has plummeted. In April, a Hill-HarrisX poll found that 73% of Americans backed Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and 27% opposed it. The Daily Wire/SurveyMonkey poll taken this week shows a nearly 30-point drop in support for Biden’s pullout with just 45% of Americans backing the decision and 39% opposing it,” The Daily Wire noted. 
“When presented with other hypothetical options, Americans are now equally divided at 46% on whether the U.S. military should have left Afghanistan,&#8221; per The Daily Wire. 
According to the poll:
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li4"> 16% of Americans say the United States should have maintained a military presence in Afghanistan until their government became a stable democratic ally.</li>
<li class="li4"> 30% say the United States should have maintained a presence in Afghanistan focused on counter-terrorism efforts to protect Americans and our allies from Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. 46% of Americans now say the United States should have maintained a military presence in Afghanistan.</li>
<li class="li4"> Conversely, 36% say the U.S. military should exit Afghanistan entirely but should have first evacuated its allies, American citizens, and left in a less disruptive fashion.</li>
<li class="li4"> Just 10% of Americans agree the United States should exit Afghanistan entirely and that the way the Biden administration is doing it now is about as best as it could have gone under the circumstances.</li>
</ul>
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