Vice President Joe Biden speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016
As Iowans caucus for their favorite presidential candidate on Monday, a Republican senator from the state says Joe Biden could be immediately impeached for his Ukraine actions as vice president should he win the presidency in November.
"I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened," Sen. Joni Ernst told Bloomberg News on Sunday.
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"Joe Biden should be very careful what he's asking for because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people, right the day after he would be elected would be saying, 'Well, we're going to impeach him.'"
Ernst said the grounds for impeachment would be "for being assigned to take on Ukrainian corruption yet turning a blind eye to Burisma because his son was on the board making over a million dollars a year."
The senator noted she was keen on seeing how the impeachment trial of President Trump was going to have an impact on this voting in the Iowa Caucuses.
"I'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucus goers. Will they be supporting Vice President Biden at this point? Not certain at that," she said.
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For his part, Biden told Iowa crowds in the past week: "You can ruin Donald Trump's night by caucusing with me and ruin Joni Ernst's night as well."
Kate Bedingfield, Biden's communications director, responded to Ernst's latest comments by again encouraging Iowans to caucus for Biden.
"Iowans have the chance tomorrow to say the words that Donald Trump and Joni Ernst fear most: I'm here to caucus for Joe Biden," she told Bloomberg.
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