{"id":306322,"date":"2025-11-20T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/what-americans-think-of-the-biden-impeachment-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:10:09","slug":"what-americans-think-of-the-biden-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=306322","title":{"rendered":"What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-abc-blocks-article-header abc-blocks-article-header--short-form abc-blocks-article-header--default abc-blocks-article-header--with-dek\">\n<div class=\"abc-blocks-article-header__container\">\n<figure id=\"single-featured-image\" class=\"single-featured-image\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"has-bugs post-thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bug-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture class=\"featured-picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?w=916 1x, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?w=1832 2x\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?w=916 1x, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?w=1832 2x\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"916\" height=\"687\" class=\"attachment-featured-article-image size-featured-article-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=100,75 100w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=683,512 683w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=575,432 575w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=470,352 470w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=347,260 347w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=213,160 213w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=207,155 207w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=60,45 60w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?resize=916,687 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/538_Hunter_Joe_Biden_091423_POLLA_v01_ks-4x3-1.jpg?w=916\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/picture>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .has-bugs --><figcaption class=\"caption featured-image-caption\">\n<p class=\"credits\">Photo Illustration by ABC News \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- .single-featured-image --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/tag\/pollapalooza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pollapalooza<\/a>, our weekly-ish polling roundup.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">It\u2019s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/12\/us\/politics\/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced<\/a> that he\u2019s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter\u2019s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of \u201ca culture of corruption,\u201d saying that the Biden administration gave Hunter \u201cspecial treatment\u201d in a criminal tax and gun investigation, and that Biden himself had lied about his knowledge of his son\u2019s financial dealings.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">The good news for McCarthy and the right-wing supporters of an impeachment investigation is that Americans do seem to believe, overall, that Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings were sketchy at best and illegal at worst.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">But Hunter Biden isn\u2019t the subject of the impeachment inquiry \u2014 his father is. So far, Republicans haven\u2019t provided any concrete evidence tying the president to his son\u2019s overseas business, although the impeachment inquiry may allow House Republicans to obtain bank records and other financial documents from Biden and his son. Right now, Republicans are most firmly convinced that Biden is implicated in Hunter\u2019s wrongdoing, while Americans overall are more inclined to see former President Donald Trump\u2019s family as corrupt, compared to the Bidens. And there isn\u2019t a broad consensus that an impeachment inquiry is warranted, signaling that Republicans have some convincing to do if they want the public to support their investigation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Americans think Hunter Biden profited from his father\u2019s position<\/h2>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">All of the allegations of a broader web of corruption within the Biden family have yet to be proven. What is less disputed, though, is the fact that Hunter Biden has personally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a significant amount of money<\/a> through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-china-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overseas business deals<\/a>, and is the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/11\/politics\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-appointment-merrick-garland\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a long-running criminal investigation<\/a>. Earlier this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/bidens-son-hunter-biden-agrees-plead-guilty-three-federal-charges-document-2023-06-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he agreed to plead guilty<\/a> to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars of income in 2017 and 2018, with an additional agreement that could allow him to avoid a conviction on a separate illegal gun ownership charge, but the plea deal fell apart after the judge, a Trump appointee, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/live-updates\/hunter-biden-hearing?id=101642512&amp;offset=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said she refused<\/a> to \u201crubber-stamp\u201d the agreement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/26\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-plea-deal.html#:~:text=Judge%20Noreika%20quickly%20zeroed%20in,by%20former%20President%20Donald%20J.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which she said wasn\u2019t standard<\/a>. Republicans accused the Biden administration of giving Hunter a \u201csweetheart\u201d deal and in August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/11\/politics\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-appointment-merrick-garland\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel<\/a> to continue probing Hunter Biden\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">None of this is a great look for the president\u2019s son, and recent polling shows that Americans are unhappy about Hunter Biden\u2019s behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2023\/08\/23\/most-americans-think-presidents-children-profit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A YouGov\/The Economist poll<\/a> conducted in August, after the plea deal collapsed, found that 72 percent of Americans think Hunter Biden personally profited from his father\u2019s positions in government, including a slim majority (53 percent) of Democrats. The same poll found that two-thirds (66 percent) of Americans have an unfavorable view of Hunter Biden, while only 17 percent have a favorable view (an additional 17 percent said they didn\u2019t know). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/667220582\/20230821-yahoo-tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a Yahoo News survey conducted by YouGov<\/a> in August, 59 percent of Americans think Hunter Biden traded on his family name and proximity to power to get millions of dollars from foreign business associates. The same poll found that 51 percent of Americans believe that Hunter Biden improperly claimed tens of thousands of dollars in tax deductions. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2023-08\/August%202023%20Politico%20Magazine%20Survey%20Trump%20Indictments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Ipsos\/Politico Magazine poll conducted in August<\/a> found, similarly, that 59 percent of Americans think that Hunter Biden is guilty of the alleged crimes in the tax non-payment case, including 51 percent of Democrats. Notably, only 2 percent of respondents said they thought he wasn\u2019t guilty, and 38 percent said they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">The YouGov\/Economist poll\u2019s findings suggest, though, that Americans think most presidents\u2019 children get some level of special treatment. The survey found that 84 percent of respondents think children of U.S. presidents get away with things that other people do not because of their parents\u2019 jobs, and a similar share (85 percent) say that adult children personally profit from their parents\u2019 positions in government at least sometimes. So while Americans do seem convinced, overall, that Hunter Biden has profited financially from his father\u2019s jobs, and even a slim majority of Democrats think he likely committed crimes, the behavior may not be shocking or unexpected.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"fte-single-story-promo fte-single-story-promo--full\">\n<div class=\"fte-single-story-promo__story\">\n<div class=\"fte-single-story-promo__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_BLANK\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/second-gop-debate-smaller-trump\/\" class=\"post-thumbnail\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fte-single-story-promo__image-wrapper\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MILWAUKEE, WI \u2013 AUGUST 23:  Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/second-debate-check-in_4x3.jpeg?w=300 1x, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/second-debate-check-in_4x3.jpeg?w=600 2x\" class=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" data-sizes=\"100vw\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/second-debate-check-in_4x3.jpeg?w=300\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside id=\"fte-single-story-promo-multi\" class=\"fte-recommended-articles\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/aside>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Republicans are more convinced that Biden is implicated in Hunter\u2019s wrongdoing<\/h2>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">Republicans don\u2019t really have to convince Americans that Hunter Biden deserves investigation, or even a criminal trial. But that\u2019s not the question that matters for impeaching his father. To justify impeaching the president, Republicans will have to prove that he was involved in financial wrongdoing or corruption that rises to the level of an impeachable offense. And so far, Republicans are making claims without facts to back them up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/12\/us\/politics\/biden-impeachment-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When he announced the inquiry, McCarthy asserted<\/a> \u2014 without evidence \u2014 that the millions Hunter Biden earned through overseas deals were also improperly shared with Biden family members, and that Biden used his official role as vice president to help get business for Hunter. <\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">More findings that tie Biden and his family to Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings could, of course, emerge. But right now, Americans haven\u2019t fully bought into the idea that the Biden family is involved in a broader influence-peddling scheme. Less than half (41 percent) of respondents in the Yahoo poll said they believe that Hunter Biden funneled millions of dollars to his father in a long-running scheme to help Joe Biden profit off his position, while 26 percent said they didn\u2019t believe it and 33 percent said they didn\u2019t know. A similar share (44 percent) believe that Biden definitely or probably did something illegal regarding Hunter Biden, while 32 percent believe he definitely or probably did not and 32 percent said they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2023-08\/August%202023%20Politico%20Magazine%20Survey%20Trump%20Indictments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many Americans are not very tuned in<\/a> to the allegations against the Bidens, which is probably why these questions result in such a high share of people who say they don\u2019t know. And another recent poll found a slightly higher share of people who say that even if Joe Biden didn\u2019t do something illegal, he may have acted unethically. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/07\/politics\/poll-hunter-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to an SSRS\/CNN poll<\/a> conducted in August, 61 percent of Americans agreed that Biden had at least some involvement in Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings, although less than half (42 percent) said he acted illegally and 18 percent said he acted unethically but not illegally. Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Quinnipiac University poll<\/a> conducted in September found that 35 percent of Americans thought Biden was involved and did something illegal in Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings with Ukraine and China, while 14 percent think he was involved and did something unethical but not illegal, and 37 percent think he wasn\u2019t involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"core-html \">\n<section class=\"viz\">\n<header class=\"viz\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Republicans are most convinced of the Bidens\u2019 wrongdoing<\/h2>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Share of respondents who said they believe that Hunter Biden did each of the following things, by party affiliation<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<table class=\"viz full\" data-carpenter-slug=\"atd.biden-impeachment-polla.1\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" class=\"text\"\/>\n<th colspan=\"1\" scope=\"col\" class=\"number\">All<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"1\" scope=\"col\" class=\"number\">Democrats<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"1\" scope=\"col\" class=\"number\">Republicans<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"1\" scope=\"col\" class=\"number\">Independents<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text\">Traded on his family name and proximity to power to get millions of dollars from foreign business associates<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">59<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">37<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">88<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text\">Failed to meet tax filing deadlines<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">59<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">50<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">78<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text\">Improperly claimed tens of thousands of dollars in tax deductions<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">51<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">31<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">81<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text\">Got preferential treatment from federal prosecutors when striking a plea deal<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">51<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">22<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">86<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text\">Funneled millions of dollars to his father in a long-running scheme to help Joe Biden profit off of his position<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">41<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">84<\/td>\n<td class=\"number\">41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<footer class=\"viz\">\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/667220582\/20230821-yahoo-tabs%E2%80%99\" target=\"\u2018_blank\u2019\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: YouGov\/Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">But as the table above shows, the people who really believe that the Biden family is corrupt are Republicans. Unsurprisingly, Democrats are much less convinced that the president did something wrong, and independents are also pretty divided. Of course, it\u2019s possible that more coverage of the allegations motivating the impeachment inquiry \u2014 and any concrete evidence that might get turned up along the way \u2014 could change people\u2019s minds, or at least persuade\u00a0 some of the ones who are undecided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">And notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/poll-americans-more-concerned-with-trump-charges-than-hunter-biden-allegations-183908444.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Yahoo News survey<\/a> found that while the share of Americans \u2014 including the share of Democrats \u2014 who think Hunter Biden did something illegal has increased since last fall, the share of respondents who think Joe Biden broke the law has remained functionally unchanged, despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-house-republicans-make-investigation-biden-top-priority-2022-11-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drumbeat of Republican accusations<\/a> to the contrary. <a href=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Fox_August-11-14-2023_Complete_National_Topline_August-17-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polling by Beacon Research\/Shaw &amp; Co. Research for Fox News<\/a> has found a similar trend: The share of Americans who think Hunter Biden did something illegal rose from 39 percent last December to 50 percent in August, but the share of Americans who think Joe Biden did something illegal related to his son\u2019s business dealings hasn\u2019t really moved. (The survey found it at 35 percent in December versus 38 percent in August.)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Americans aren\u2019t convinced impeachment is warranted<\/h2>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">Perhaps most worryingly for Republicans, most Americans don\u2019t think an impeachment inquiry into Biden is warranted right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/bidens-age-economic-worries-endanger-re-election-in-2024-wsj-poll-finds-67a7bba8?mod=hp_lead_pos3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A GBAO\/Fabrizio, Lee &amp; Associates poll for The Wall Street Journal<\/a> conducted in late August found that 52 percent of Americans oppose impeaching Biden, and only 41 percent are in favor. More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2023\/09\/13\/215a6\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a YouGov poll conducted on September 13<\/a> found that 41 percent of Americans oppose impeaching Biden, 44 percent are in support and 15 percent don\u2019t know. In early October 2019, when Trump\u2019s first impeachment was getting underway, Americans were more closely divided, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/impeachment-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to our polling tracker<\/a>. And in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">majorities of Americans supported Trump\u2019s impeachment<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/trump-impeachment-removal-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a slim majority of Americans even consistently supported<\/a> removing Trump from office before the end of his term.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">In fact, allegations of corruption are stickier when it comes to the Trump family than the Bidens. According to the Yahoo News survey, 46 percent of Americans think that Trump and his family are more corrupt than the Bidens, while 36 percent think the Bidens are more corrupt than the Trumps. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/bidens-age-is-a-significant-concern-for-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And a recent AP-NORC poll<\/a> found that Americans were more likely to describe Trump as \u201ccorrupt\u201d than Biden. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2023\/09\/13\/215a6\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that September YouGov poll<\/a> found that Americans are more likely to describe the impeachment inquiry as motivated by politics in an attempt to embarrass Biden (41 percent) rather than a serious effort to find out the truth (28 percent).<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">That doesn\u2019t mean that Hunter Biden\u2019s legal troubles aren\u2019t a liability for Biden, particularly after <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/hunter-biden-indicted-special-counsel-felony-gun-charges\/story?id=103168312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a grand jury just indicted him<\/a> on federal gun charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/august-2023-national-poll-trump-debate-snub-may-open-door-for-other-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent Emerson College poll<\/a> found that while 47 of voters say that the indictments against Trump make them less likely to vote for him for president, 46 percent say the Hunter Biden tax and felony gun charges make them less likely to vote for Joe Biden in 2024. So it\u2019s possible that as Hunter Biden\u2019s investigation continues to unfold, his father could take political damage. But right now, Republicans aren\u2019t just missing evidence that Biden is connected to his son\u2019s wrongdoing in ways that could be impeachable \u2014 they also don\u2019t have the public on their side.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other polling bites:<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biden approval<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"920\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png 1150w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=94,75 94w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=300,240 300w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=768,614 768w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=1024,819 1024w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=640,512 640w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=540,432 540w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=440,352 440w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=281,225 281w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=563,450 563w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=325,260 325w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=200,160 200w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=720,576 720w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=194,155 194w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=100,80 100w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=60,48 60w, https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=859,687 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png\"\/><\/figure>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\">According to FiveThirtyEight\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presidential approval tracker<\/a>, 40.9 percent of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president, while 54.4 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -13.5 points). At this time last week, 40.0 percent approved and 56.0 percent disapproved (a net approval rating of -16.0 points). One month ago, Biden had an approval rating of 40.8 percent and a disapproval rating of 54.5 percent, for a net approval rating of -13.8 points.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph=\"main\"><strong>CORRECTION (Sept. 18, 2023, 11:20 a.m.):<\/strong> A previous version of this article stated that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asserted, without evidence, that Hunter Biden shared some of the money he received through foreign deals with his family. In fact, there is evidence that Hunter Biden\u2019s family members <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-oversight-committee-has-uncovered-mounting-evidence-tying-joe-biden-to-family-business-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\">also received money through these deals<\/a>, but in his announcement, McCarthy did not offer evidence that it was illegal or corrupt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Illustration by ABC News \/ Getty Images Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It\u2019s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he\u2019s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter\u2019s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of \u201ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137109,137110,137111,137112,137113,137114],"tags":[14640,11422,50817,11535],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-306322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-house-republicans","category-hunter-biden","category-impeachment","category-joe-biden","category-kevin-mccarthy","category-scandals","tag-americans","tag-biden","tag-impeachment","tag-inquiry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=306322\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo Illustration by ABC News \/ Getty Images Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. 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