Other experts cautioned that Biden could actually see a positive consequence from the inquiry similar to former President Bill Clinton's impeachment over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, which led to Democrats gaining five House seats, one of only two times since 1934 that the president's party gained House seats during the midterm elections while blocking Republicans from gaining any more seats in the Senate. "The 1998 midterm election, it's not completely unprecedented, but it was almost unprecedented in terms of the support that Clinton was able to generate in November of 1998 when all the impeachment furor was reaching its peak," said Russell Riley, co-chair of the University of Virginia's Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program.
Russell Riley
