It Increasingly appears that new US Senate Minority Leader MCConnell COULD vote to convict Donald Trump of helping an ‘insurrection’ as the US House indictment charges….
He probably has a few other Republicans thinking the same thing…
But some of the die hard Trump supporting GOP lawmakers are trying to stop guy who carried the water for the former President, but seems to now admit that he was and IS NOT happy with the big guy, who he doesn’t have to deal with anymore….
An open political war could break out among Republicans in the US Senate as some still support ex-President Trump and others might want to convict him of a House charge to bar him from running for any Federal office again….
“The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said Tuesday on the floor. “They were provoked by the President and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on.”
After 10 House Republicans broke ranks to join every Democrat to impeach Trump last week on a charge of inciting an insurrection, a number of Republican senators are taking a similar posture as McConnell — saying they’re truly undecided and will listen to the arguments — a key sign that they could very well be swayed by the position the GOP leader ultimately takes.
Yet in the House, a group of Trump loyalists are seeking to strip Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney of her GOP leadership post for supporting impeachment, a predicament some Republican senators privately believe could hound McConnell if he seeks to end Trump’s political career.
McConnell, who has aligned himself with Trump’s agenda for the past four years and was responsible for helping him reshape the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court, has had little interaction with Trump in recent weeks after the former President grew increasingly isolated by his efforts to overturn the elections.
Republicans who know McConnell well believe he will take the temperature of the Senate GOP Conference and ultimately make a decision based in part on the views of his colleagues and the mood of the country when it comes time to cast the key vote.
And some Trump loyalists say if McConnell and at least 16 of his GOP colleagues join 50 Democrats to convict the ex-President, they’ll see a major backlash from the party’s base that will thwart their hopes of winning back the Senate majority next year….
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I still don’t see near the votes to convict.
Maybe 56-57 at best.
More pressure on McConnell, who was just re-elected to NOT vote to convict Trump of ‘insurrection ‘….
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Kentucky’s Republican party is circulating a resolution calling on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to publicly condemn the second impeachment of now former President Donald Trump
The only thing we have seen that indicates any diminution in Republican support for Trump are some statements(mostly in the immediate aftermath of the Trumpite Thugs terrorist attack on the Capitol) and some polls indicating some slippage in his support among Republican voters.
The organized Republicans,i e, Republican officials, committees ,media etc.are maintaining firm support of him.