WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Kamala Harris has cautioned Democrats against impeaching President Trump for a third time if they regain control of the House of Representatives in next week’s midterm elections.
“I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea, just to be honest with you, just because we have limited resources,” Harris told MeidasTouch’s Aaron Parnas in a Tuesday interview.
“I think the energy and the resources need to be put into accountability, need to be put into investigations,” she added. “And that’s where the time should be spent.”
“Remember, I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there,” Harris emphasized. “So, that’s how I feel, but you know, also I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done, and the tone and our kind of orientation around it has to be kind of ruthless.
“They’re [Republicans are] ruthless, but they’re cruel. And when I say we should be ruthless, I don’t mean cruel, but we should be uncompromising.”
Trump survived two impeachment attempts during his first term. Harris, who was in the Senate at the time, voted to convict Trump over an alleged attempted quid pro quo involving Ukraine aid.
She was vice president at the time of the Senate trial following Trump’s second impeachment for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has declared that Democrats haven’t “ruled anything in, and we haven’t ruled anything out” in terms of whether to impeach Trump, but he has signaled that other administration officials like War Secretary Pete Hegseth are likely to be pursued.
While impeachment requires a simple majority in the House, a two-thirds vote in the Senate is required for conviction and removal from office.
Neither party has had a supermajority in the Senate since the mid-1960s, when Democrats briefly held 68 of 100 seats.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband, Bill, became the first president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson, told lefty journalist Kara Swisher last week that “I am against impeaching Donald Trump because I think it’s a sideshow and he can’t get convicted.
“But I am in favor of opening impeachment investigations into some of the elected officials or the appointed officials,” she added. “People like Pete Hegseth, who I think is hollowing out our military, politicizing our military, turning it into a militia for his Christian national ambitions.”
