Vance: Impeachment could backfire if GOP goes "further than the evidence"

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said during an Axios News Shapers event on Wednesday that the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden could "backfire on Republicans if we go further than the evidence."

Driving the news: "If we get too far ahead of the evidence, then yeah, I think the American people will penalize us," Vance told Axios' Sophia Cai.

Vance, a fervent supporter of former President Trump, said that House Republicans should "follow the evidence" in the probe, adding that he thinks there are "very credible pieces of evidence."

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