The few Republican Senators with integrity are being removed from the party. Since when did it become GOP policy to garner votes at any cost?
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.
Sasse won re-election in 2020, and his term is set to expire in 2027. Sasse has been at odds with Trump and his own party for years. As Trump ran for re-election in 2020, Sasse unloaded on him, saying Trump “kisses dictators’ butts,” “flirted with white supremacists,” “disparages women,” “mocks evangelicals behind closed doors” and “treats the presidency like a business opportunity.”
After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Sasse was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump for his role in the deadly riot. He specifically faulted Trump for intimidating election officials and repeatedly lying about widespread election fraud and the outcome of the 2020 election.
“Those lies had consequences, endangering the life of the vice president and bringing us dangerously close to a bloody constitutional crisis,” Sasse said at the time. “Each of these actions are violations of a president’s oath of office.”
