As of today, nearly every Republican Senator who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his impeachment conviction trial has either been censured by their Republican voters or faces censure in the near future.
On Saturday, the U.S. Senate voted to acquit Trump on the charge that he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot. The 57-43 vote to convict failed to reach the two-thirds majority required in the upper chamber.
Joining all fifty Democrat Senators who voted to convict were seven GOP Senators:
- Susan Collins of Maine
- Mitt Romney of Utah
- Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
- Richard Burr of North Carolina
- Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
- Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and
- Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
All have either been censured or are facing censure at home by at least one county Republican committee, save for Murkowski, who is up for re-election in 2022, so far.
The seven senators who went against the party line and voted to impeach Donald Trump are now facing very strong backlash and censure for their actions.https://t.co/ERS8SYq7Wq
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 14, 2021
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Republicans Making Their Feelings Known
The seven Senators who voted to convict join several of their colleagues in the House who also are facing not just unhappy voters at home, but in some cases, already have primary challengers in 2022 for their votes to impeach.
One of the most high profile House members to face backlash which includes a primary challenger is Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). Cheney was also called out by fellow Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) , who went to Wyoming to support constituents who want to replace her in Congress.
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In the House, in addition to Cheney, South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice was also censured at home.
Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has not only taken heat at home from constituents for his vote to impeach, but several members of his own family have called him an ’embarrassment.’
Rep. Adam Kinzinger Received Scathing Letter From Family Members After Calling For Trump’s Removal https://t.co/bPSZEhszuO
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 16, 2021
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Pro-Impeachment Senators All Facing Backlash
According to a report from Vox, the Republican Parties of Louisiana and North Carolina wasted no time in blasting Bill Cassidy and Richard Burr, respectively.
“The Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana has unanimously voted to censure Senator Bill Cassidy for his vote cast earlier today to convict former President Donald J. Trump on the impeachment charge.”
Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty. pic.twitter.com/ute0xPc4BH
— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) February 13, 2021
The feeling in North Carolina was essentially the same. In a statement issued by NCGOP Chair Michael Whatley, he stated that Burr’s vote was “shocking and disappointing.”
“North Carolina Republicans sent Senator Burr to the United States Senate to uphold the Constitution and his vote today to convict in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing.”
Chairman @WhatleyNCGOP statement on Senator Burr’s impeachment vote. #ncpol #ncsen https://t.co/NUxhDkmm5N
— NCGOP (@NCGOP) February 13, 2021
Burr and Senator Pat Toomey have already announced that neither would be seeking re-election, which perhaps might have given both the feeling of having a bit of wiggle room when it came to pleasing or displeasing constituents.
Washington County Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Dave Ball stated of Toomey that “As far as we’re concerned, his political career is over in this state, even if he were to try to run again. His legacy is tarnished beyond repair.”
Sasse was censured by his fellow Nebraska Republicans for what they cited as “dismissing the legitimate concerns of Nebraska’s Secretary of State, and a huge majority of Republican voters regarding allegations of fraud in November’s presidential election.”
In response, Sasse released a rather condescending video to Nebraska Republicans explaining to them what was “conservative” and what was not.
In Maine, censure resolutions are being considered.
In Utah, Republican voters are circulating a petition online calling to censure Mitt Romney, though that state GOP has defended ‘diversity of thought.’
IMPEACHMENT BACKLASH: The fallout continues for Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, with Sen. Bill Cassidy censured by Louisiana’s GOP as he stands by the move. @rachelvscott reports as Trump makes his first public appearance since acquittal. https://t.co/pMdBVRYfLh pic.twitter.com/ppYGcGvoie
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) February 16, 2021
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Will Voters Hold Them Accountable At The Ballot?
There are several things that might make Senators taking heat for their conviction vote interesting.
Of these seven, only Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is up for re-election. Burr and Toomey are retiring, and Romney is in the middle of his first term.
The rest were all just re-elected.
Another interesting factor is two Senators who have not been censured by their own voters – the two Republicans who challenged the electoral college votes.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) were blamed by Democrat Senators for the riot and there were calls by many for both to resign or be expelled.
And in what might the most intriguing aspect of the “Gang of 7,” is that in the wake of Burr’s retirement announcement, there will be a vacancy in one of North Carolina’s Senate seats.
Former Representative Mark Walker has thrown his hat into the ring for 2022, but another name is floating around, that of Lara Trump.
The North Carolina native and wife of Eric Trump recently got a huge boost from Lindsey Graham, who described her as the “biggest winner of the impeachment trial.”
“The biggest winner I think of this whole impeachment trial is Lara Trump,” said Graham.@LaraLeaTrump can now be seen as a contender for the 2022 Senate race after @SenatorBurr voted to convict Trump in the #ImpeachmentTrial, said Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC. https://t.co/4gS2OqzNho
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) February 16, 2021
As Americans get more and more tired of sending people to Washington who do not reflect their wishes, the Gang of 7 and those like them may just be the last of a dying breed.
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they forgot to add mitch the switch and pence in there. of all of those turncoats, don't elect them ever again. they will do the same thing, over and over. they should join the dems, because they are of no use as repubs.
I think that everyone who is (upset) with the Benedict Arnolds needs to send $45 to whoever primaries them. More if you can afford it, but the $45 increments will surely make an impression.
I, personally, started my first out-of-state series of contributions on Ground Hog Day this year.
Chingus RINO Romney and PINCHA Collins are the only two LIBERAL RINOS that have NOT been censured yet . The Conservatives in Maine and Utah should tell the GOP there , that they will NOT donate ANY money to the Republican Party until they are censured !!! We have got to get rid of ALL the RINOS and GUTLESS Republicans before the TRUE Conservative Republican Party can represent us . Call your GOP representatives and DEMAND RINOS Collins and Romney at least get Censured !!!
Can't Get No Satisfaction!
54% Say Trump Should Leave GOP But Majority Would Still Vote for Him in 2024 Primary
According to recent polls, 54 percent of registered voters believe Trump should no longer play any sort of role in the GOP. Within that number, 50 percent of men and 57 percent of women agreed that Trump should shy away from the Republican party.
Democrats overwhelmingly supported the idea of Trump no longer being involved with the GOP by 77 percent. Only 17 percent of Republicans polled agreed with the concept.
Should Trump make another run for the White House, 53 percent of registered voters said they would vote for him over other high-profile Republicans. Former Vice President Mike Pence came in second place with only 12 percent of support. Other Republicans on the poll's list of choices included Utah Senator Mitt Romney, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
Trump has proven to the world that he knows what he is doing as far as helping America and it people both Democrat and Republican in improving their lives . He has out smarted the proved to the world and the Democrats that their accusations were nothing but made up lies made up by the Corrupt lying Democrats and their lying news media's . The Democrats can't stand to see that Trump is smarter than them and that he is capable of destroying all their under the table business deals they have had all these years right under our stupid noses . Since Biden has been in office a lot of the die hard Democrats are starting to see the truth about his true feelings. I hope it's not to late.
These traitors to the Republicans should resign. They are untrustworthy. Don't we have enough to watch with the low life Dems. Why's should we have to watch these back stabbing politicians too . Consider this your pick slip . Your Fired. If it were in my power I would strip you all of the gold standard benefits. You do not deserve one more dime in my opinion
True, we don’t want them, But not to worry even if they not be taken in by the Dems, they can surely be members of Antifa or BLM
We lost the most productive President of our time and for what, Kamala! It has to be a joke!
The Hipocratic party (intentional) must be stopped. We put the small differences aside and unite to defeat the left. Primary out the traitors, fund and get behind our new candidates at Federal, State and local levels, and broaden our base to include the moderate Democrats who are horrified by the extreme left direction. Volunteer to be poll watchers and election judges, hire tech of our own to detect and reverse electronic manipulation via the internet of voting machines, watch outside polling places in organized groups to prevent 3am ballot dumps, and we take back what was stolen from us. (Yes, Time magazine. All of us read the article.)
Just like the dem0ncRATS, The 7 has lost all credibility….. BYE!!!!!
Recall and replace…NOW
Your comment section is a joke your choice of censorship is ridiculous.
Romney I get, he is a bitter old man who was not President because he claimed that a Mormon is a Christian like any Christian when in fact the person of Jesus as Messiah, ( I do not condemn people but I don't believe they are "Christians" and Jesus was not a Marxist.) have more in common with Islam. who challenge the authority of the Bible. And are keen to alter rewrite or add their own books of infallibility.
The fact is Romney has more in common with Christian haters.
Names that will live in infamy!
Susan Collins of Maine
Mitt Romney of Utah
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
If these RINOS made decisions that benefitted themselves personally, while disregarding their constituents wishes, they DESERVE censure…and then being voted out of office. They seem to have forgotten how our representative form of government works. The power is given to them by us, not taken from us….
I'm upset that Democrats persisted with this fake impeachment and Senators voted to usurp the powers of the Supreme Court in determining that Trump violated the Constitution instead of asking it to make a determination. We have three branches of the Federal government for that reason, Executive, Legislative and Judicial. I'm also upset that two Republican Representatives, Fred Upton and Peter Meijer voted with Democrats. I've put notices on Facebook and other media that anyone running against these two RINO's can count on my financial help and I will call every person I know in their districts to vote against them. I've also not shopped at any Meijer store since that vote, Peter Meijer is one of those Meijer's. I will also actively campaign against our two Democrat Senators, Debbie Stabenow who I campaigned for and donated to in past elections, and Gary Peters who promised he would do certain things immediately after taking office but has done nothing, a true career politician.
Haha….. MItt Romney and Ben Sasse need to go meet up with Jeff The Flake or John Kay-Sick.
They are the new Flake and K-sick and we all know where those losers' political fortunes led. Yuck.
I'd like to see Mitt Romney forced to give a speech in which he outlines exactly HOW MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN SAVED BY DONALD TRUMP'S OPERATION WARP SPEED. I want Mitt to do the report just so I can see the misery that scag will be forced to endure to report Donald J Trump is responsible for MILLIONS of lives being saved due to Operation Warp Speed. MILLIONS. Hey Mitt- go. Go ahead. Make the speech, you loser. We all want to see it. Go on, MItt. Head over to the mic, right now.
Also the chief of police in d.c. asked Pelosi for help and to bring in 10000 national guardsmen……… guess what she said no so who really is to blame here ?
They obviously don’t belong in Washington representing “We The People” since they don’t understand what “go peacefully and Patriotically” means. The fact is according to the FBI that the entrance to the Capitol was planned by this radical group months before and scheduled for January 6. The Capitol police were notified and for some unknown reason did not plan appropriately. So these Congresspeople and Senators that voted to impeach are just as guilty as President Trump, in other words President Trump is innocent of their charge. Why don’t they all do the work they were sent to Washington to do, instead of wasting our tax dollar. This fiasco is a disgrace, the world is watching.
"That's a capital "D" to you, sir or madam. Go in peace, and may the light of Truth and Reason one day penetrate your adamantine pate."
The quotation above, exactly as I wrote it, required examination by the Moderator(s) before it could be posted. Perhaps some of the words had too many syllables. Other than that, I can find no offense.
Red Scooter. You are not me. People on this site use all kinds of coarse language and name calling, and as far as I know, they get little trouble. I posted a reply using EXACTLY THE SAME WORDS as the poster, and the site flagged my post as employing inappropriate language.
This site is on to me; its managers know that I disagree with much of what is being said here, so it is not uncommon for me to be told that my comment needs to be "approved," or it's dismissed due to that arbitrary "inappropriate language" assertion. I might even suspect that this site subscribes to "cancel culture," and it tends to cancel me.
Thank you for reminding me to take my "meds." I take calcium and B12 daily, as I'm an elder. Even if you disagree with me, I appreciate your concern about my health. Remember to take yours as well!
You should endeavor to take your meds. Yesterday in the comment section someone use the word Axxhole at least 10 times and didn’t get a warning what do you see wrong with this comment people you really are just too much.
How could you tell I was a teacher? I must be a pretty good one if you recognized my efforts at edification as one from a trained professional! My "desk" is merely a dictionary, in which any one of you could find the meaning of Karma without a word from me. As for my usual lecture, to reverse a quotation from Scripture, I come not to bring a sword, but peace! You should endeavor to do the same.
I see CleverBev, the self-appointed "teacher", has made herself the one to "educate" all of us…except NOBODY asked "Miss Landers" for her usual condescending lecture from her desk (rather, her leftist "bully pulpit"). Maybe someone should "educate" her on that…
Folks. Karma is a force of the universe that you bring on upon yourself by your actions. It is NOT action taken by others to punish you for something you've done that they don't like. That is called "REVENGE."
I'm also somewhat surprised that those who claim to be "Christian" would invoke the name of a concept from another religious tradition. Good for you? You're learning? I don't know.
Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman.
Compare bhakti (def. 1), jnana.
Theosophy. the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.
fate; destiny.
the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something: Lets get out of here. This place has bad karma.
That's what I say about this website: really poisonous Karma generated by untruths and evil thoughts.
Now, go in peace. May the light of a thousand suns enter your minds and purify them from all wicked thoughts.
Not to worry "the UN-magnificent Seven" the Democrat Party will welcome you with open arms!!
I sincerely hope every one of them gets voted to the curb. They are an embarrassment to the party. Good riddance to their political careers.
So what does that really mean.it’s a slap on the wrist when they should be out of office for being a traitor to there party and the one person that was working for the American people not like that sniveling idiot that is there now and has already caused thousands of people jobless has made prices of gas and other things to go up and wants to let thousands of illegals and muslins into our country where we have to pay for them
Every one of those RINOs needs to be primaried and replaced with a REAL Republican…!??!?!
The Dem votes (wrong) makes sense for where that (whole) party is (clearly ANTI-American) but NO REAL Republican should. Some were no surprise at all but a few/couple were a surprise and will NEVER again get my support – even for dog catcher. You know the saying "With friends like that who needs enemies."
Boot out everyone of them that voted against President Trump! Dam their rotten back stabbing hides!
Biden is a criminal communist pedophile who stole the election
Impeach 46..
Can we recover? I hope, the time is now, if the elections are legit. The Daltis sure out number the "elites".
Perhaps we have all relied/trusted too much the snake oil salesmen, like Obama, all grooming and perfume, haute couture and smarm. We have developed a caste system, not unlike the Indian one, where honest working men are treated like Dalits, with contempt, and the self elevated elite have too much time on their hands, concoct provocative means of enforcing and expanding these differences, with nit picking and hyperbole. Trump represents the Dalits , who given the chance, can surpass any elite in common sense and decency, in creativity and innovity.
His style is challenging , but his policies crush anything leftists or Rinos offer.
I have given it a lot of thought. The Democrats did not want him as president, there were, at one time, many Republicans who did not want him as president and the Media certainly did not want him as president. He was not a politician, but a business man with no experience in politics. The chances of him winning the election did not look so good. I came to one conclusion and that is that he was ordained by God. The further we get into the Biden Presidency – the better Donald Trump looks. He will be sadly missed and if he wants to come back and give it another try he will be welcomed.
I agree that the Republican Party could attract a lot of Hispanics, Blacks, etc. but Trump isn't going to do that. White supremacists are big fans of Trump, Proud Boys attend his rallies. Trump is a neo-confederate. A Trump supporter brought a Confederate Flag into the Capitol, something which not even the Confederacy could manage. He refuses to let the military rename military bases that were named after Confederate Generals in 1930's in support of the Jim Crow South. He complained about NASCAR not allowing Confederate Flags.
You overlook the many sensible, non ideological Americans who may be dumb enough to be swayed by the incessant anti Trump media propaganda , but who will be affected by Hidin Joe's puppet policies and are seeking a new home. Include the refugees from Communism eg. Chines for Trump and Hispanics, who will oppose it here, the Asian and black minorities who actually like Trump ( I meet them on social media ) but appreciate his policies more. Polls suggest 30 % of disaffected Democrats will join a Party which offers sensible, pro America politics. It is the GOP itself which deters them from joining. It is stuck in a time warp.
You are wrong, the democrat party will not be victorious, Americans love President Trump and his party will be victorious, and I do not mean the Republican party!
The Democrat have become the a radical Marxist party, they are no longer the party of JFK.
But MLone said he voted Trump. If the Dems. do not change back, he will never vote for them again. They will find it difficult to change back–too far down the radical road. Can ISIS become Ahmadiyya ?
I don't understand…with how you seem to feel, why would you choose to remain a Democrat then? Especially if you say they'll be "lucky" to ever get your vote again?
As well you should be!!!!!!!!!
I'm a democrat, will stay a democrat, but I vote Trump. After what the democrats have done, through this whole Trump presidency and the fixed elections, they will be lucky to ever get my vote again. I know about 25 other people that are just like me. We are Americans first!!!
We will probably pick up some Dems that are not as extreme as Biden, Harris and their leadership. BYTW don't really think the Dems really won control. It was a steal
What do you think their true motives are? I think they feel the extreme right has hijacked the Party and they want something more moderate. The Democrats potentially have the same problem with an extreme left that could hijack their Party.
This is a situation where RINOS will be forced to declare their true allegiance and reveal their true motives
So you think all those censured Republicans are going to want to be in the same party as Trump? Dream on.