Posted on 02/17/2021 6:23:15 PM PST by White Lives Matter
The Republican Party is a damn joke. They are disgusting, outrageous, and lost. After sitting back and watching the Democrats steal the 2020 landslide election away from President Trump and then denying any election wrongdoing, the Republicans now want to look into election integrity.
.... Snip....
But today the Republicans, no doubt after seeing their donations drop to a trickle, decided they want to create a new committee to discuss election integrity. Via Just the News:
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Wednesday the group has formed a new Committee on Election Integrity “dedicated to restoring election transparency and ensuring voters have confidence in future election processes.”
Advertisement - story continues below
The announcement follows the 2020 election cycle, the results of which remain under a cloud of voter fraud allegations and concerns about the actions of state election officials and leaders.
“Election integrity is one of the most critical issues we face as a party and as a country,” McDaniel said in making the announcement. “What we saw this past election – states undoing important safeguards, bypassing the proper legislative processes, and changing election laws in the eleventh hour – was deeply troubling and brought chaos and uncertainty to our sacred democratic processes. As RNC chair, I will not sit idly by and the party will respond.”
The RND said that in the 2020 election cycle, “its most comprehensive legal strategy to date” – that it spent over $30 million on election protection efforts in battleground states across the country.
Notice these clowns still won’t say that the 2020 election was stolen by a senile old man who couldn’t fill ten circles at a ‘rally.’
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Not really. They were happy to sail to victory on Trump's coat tails in 2020 while doing absolutely nothing to stop the presidency being stolen. The RINOs wanted Trump gone.
But the runoffs in GA showed the RINOs that if they didn't do something about election fraud before the 2022 elections, then it will be THEIR jobs on the line. That's the only reason they're doing anything about it.
I say let them go ahead with election reform. I believe these RINOs really think that Trump voters will vote for them in 2022 if they clamp down on election fraud. If they really do clamp down on the fraud, then that will make it that much easier to purge the RINOs in the 2022 primaries.
GOP leadership in House and Senate are corrupt to the core.
Until leadership changes nothing else will change.
Trump has a PAC plus he will be endorsing candidates.
Pubs are left with their big money globalists and no voters.
MAGA money will bypass the GOPe and go directly to MAGA candidates.
I suspect it’s more like they’re counting the dollar signs and coming up short.
Excellent point! That is why all those fake ballots were Biden only.
The deal was the DEMS could cheat against Trump but leave the down ballot alone.
The GOPe was in on it.
I don’t care if the GOP lives or dies.
Who is going to do something about election reform?
The GOP does not hold the Presidency, House or Senate.
McDaniel is trying to raise funds. She has no power to change anything.
She is no different than the grifters at the Lincoln Project.
They’re worried about losing their positions now.
Exactly!
And nobody in the GOP apparently had the balls to "clap back" at the governors and Democrat operatives for screwing with the election laws BEFORE the election. In fact, some of them made deals with these losers. Buzz off, Ronna Romney, and take your screwball party with you.
Restoring confidence in elections is important. But the bigger problem is that we don’t have confidence in the Republican party now. They finally went too far, and it’s obvious not only do they not care, they’re actively working for the enemy.
More theater from compromised swamp republicans.
Add to that a rudderless supreme court.
We have become ‘third world’...
Thank you for writing in to express your views regarding the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump. It is good to hear from you.
On January 6, 2021, then-President Trump gave a speech at a rally near the White House before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. In that speech, Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol and many of them then stormed the building and tried to stop Congress from confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. During the tragic event, the U.S. Capitol was placed under lockdown and five people died, while dozens more were injured. On January 13, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a single article of impeachment against then-President Trump, charging him with incitement of insurrection. The Senate has since held a trial and voted on whether to convict the former president. I voted against conviction, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to explain why.
Let me begin by saying that the siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was an attack on democracy itself. That night, shortly after the rioters had been cleared from the Senate floor, I spoke to urge my colleagues to do our constitutional duty and support the state certifications of the election results as a signal that “we will not be intimidated” and that “mob rule is not going to prevail here.”
I have said that what President Trump did that day was inexcusable because in his speech he encouraged the mob, and that he bears some responsibility for the tragic violence that occurred. I have also criticized his slow response as the mob stormed the Capitol, putting at risk the safety of Vice President Pence, law enforcement officers, and others who work in the Capitol complex. Even after the attack, some of the language in his tweets and in a video showed sympathy for the violent mob. In response, I called on President Trump to “explicitly urge his supporters to remain peaceful and refrain from violence.”
However, the question I had to answer was not whether President Trump said and did things that were reckless and encouraged the mob. I believe that happened. The threshold question I had to answer was whether a former president can be convicted by the Senate in the context of an impeachment. This would have been unprecedented. Consistent with the two votes I had already taken during this process, I believe the Constitution reserves the narrow tool of impeachment and conviction for removal of current officeholders and current presidents, and does not apply to former officeholders or former presidents. Impeachment in the Constitution is fundamentally about removing someone from office.
I think the Framers of the Constitution understood that it would be inappropriate to allow Congress—an inherently political body—to convict former presidents. Instead, the appropriate place to address former officials’ conduct is the criminal justice system. In fact, the Constitution makes clear that former presidents are subject to the criminal justice system. That is where the issues raised by the former president’s inexcusable actions and words must be addressed.
I have a duty to uphold my oath to the Constitution and that’s why I voted as I did on the state certifications of the election on January 6, on the jurisdictional issue during the trial, and on the final vote on conviction. My decision in no way condones the president’s conduct. On the contrary, I was keeping my oath to the Constitution—one that I believe the president did not keep on January 6th.
Our country is already deeply divided. My decision was based on my reading of the Constitution, but I also believe the Framers understood that convicting a former president and disqualifying him or her from running again pulls people further apart. Instead, our task should be to help bridge the growing gaps that separate us. I will continue to do my part to try to find that common ground to bring our country together to address the many challenges we face.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact my office. It is an honor to represent you and your family in the United States Senate. For more information, you can visit my website at www.portman.senate.gov . Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Rob Portman
U.S. Senator
No. A large number of the D.C. Republican Party is a joke.
The vast majority of the Republican Party (over 75 million voters) is not a joke.
The Left very much wants to equate the few turncoats in D.C. with the entire Republican Party, so as splinter and destroy the opposition.
As Lindsey Graham has promised repeatedly ( yet delivered NOTHING ) :
” Stay tuned “.
Yada, yada, yada. Let’s send a message to Ronna. The perfect 2020 election that wasn’t....In Fulton County Georgia Richard Barron, the director of elections was ousted after multiple problems in the 2020 election.
Screw Portman.
I will no longer be the battered spouse to the Republican Party. Over and over they promised to, repeal Obamacare. They told us, just give them the House majority then the Senate and they would really deliver. And we worked hard and contributed only to be spat upon as the Republicans sat by and watched Trump get roasted. They gave nothing for the wall. Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, the 145 secret voters, the 7 Senators voting to impeach. Lindsey Graham constantly telling us to stay tuned while he never ever does anything but talk out of both sides of his mouth. Mitt Romney, and the list goes on.
No, I now despise the Republican Party. They need to wither and die.
She'll demand it!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.