House GOP push to launch Biden impeachment probe runs into Senate Republican skepticism

House Republicans are not only facing resistance from within their own ranks to impeach President Joe Biden, they're also getting a cool reception from another key constituency: Senate Republicans.

The concerns raised from lawmakers across the Capitol - who would be the jury in an impeachment trial if it came to that - adds another layer of GOP opposition, and further exposes that Republicans are not unified in their pursuit of impeaching Biden.

Republicans in the Senate are nervous that the push to impeach could backfire politically and give Biden a boost - all the while distracting from their efforts to paint the president as out of touch on the economy. Moreover, a number of Senate Republicans liken the Biden impeachment efforts to the two impeachments of then-President Donald Trump that they sharply criticized, even though the situations are markedly different.

And some are deeply skeptical that House Republicans have gathered enough evidence to launch impeachment proceedings over Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings - much less charge the president with committing high crimes or misdemeanors over them.

"We got so many things we need to be focusing on," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, said when asked about impeaching Biden. "I don't see the glaring evidence that says we need to move forward, I didn't see it in the Trump case and voted against it. I don't see it in this case."

Indeed, even though many senators said they encouraged their Republican colleagues in the House to keep investigating the Biden family, they emphasized that time is running out and that the evidence against the president still has not met the threshold needed to move forward.

"I'm not for going through another damn trial to be honest with you," Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, told CNN.