Ernst walks back her Biden impeachment remarks

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/481231-ernst-walks-back-her-biden-impeachment-remarks?amp

 

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday walked back her comments a day earlier warning that Congress could immediately impeach Democrat Joe Biden over his Ukraine dealings if he's elected president in November.  

Speaking with reporters just off the Senate floor, Ernst said her weekend remarks were overblown and that she was trying to argue that Democrats have made impeachment - once a political tool reserved for extreme circumstances - the new normal in today's partisan warfare. 

"That was taken entirely out of context. The point is that the Democrats have lowered the bar so far that ... regardless of who it is, if you have a different party in the House than that of an elected president, you can have just random comments thrown out there with folks saying we're going to impeach," Ernst said when asked by The Hill about her earlier Biden comments. 

"So, no, it was taken out of context. I didn't say what the headlines [said] but simply that we've lowered the bar so much, is this really what the American people want? And I would say no, it's not," she continued.

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Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff have indeed lowered the bar.