McCarthy: GOP-led House won't use impeachment for 'political purposes' like Democrats did with Trump

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says if Republicans retake Congress after the midterms, they will not rush to impeach President Biden because he does not want to use the process for political purposes as Democrats did against former President Trump.

"I think the country doesn’t like impeachment used for political purposes at all. If anyone ever rises to that occasion, you have to, but I think the country wants to heal and … start to see the system that actually works," California Republican Rep. McCarthy said, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.

When asked whether he thought anyone in the Biden administration had committed an impeachable offense, McCarthy replied: "I don’t see it before me right now. You watch what the Democrats did. They all came out and said they would impeach before [Donald] Trump was ever sworn in. There wasn’t a purpose for it."

Trump was impeached twice, first over the since debunked Russia collusion scandal and then over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and he was acquitted by the Senate on both occasions. 

McCarthy said the GOP needs to practice what they preach: "If you spent all that time arguing against using impeachment for political purposes, you gotta be able to sustain exactly what you said."

Meanwhile, there have been a growing number of calls within the Republican Party to impeach Biden if the GOP wins back the majority.