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Democrats Announce Trump Impeachment Trial Will Start February 8th β€” GOP Senators May Ask for a Secret Ballot to Hide Their Vote from Constituents
GP ^ | January 25, 2021 at 11:25am | By Jim Hoft

Posted on 01/25/2021 9:54:15 AM PST by Hojczyk

There is also talk that Republican senators may choose a secret ballot so their voting base will not know how each member voted.

If they do that the party is over. It’s already floundering after House leaders Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney blamed President Trump for the violence in the US Capitol on January 6th.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: coverup; gossip; hoftalert; impeachment; rumors; secrecy; secretballot; thereistalk; trump; trumpimpeachtrial
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To: Hojczyk

Anyone claiming to be part of the Republican Party is claiming to be part of a corpse.

Of course, the Demonicrat Party is the hull-crushing abyss of lying, murdering treason.


21 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:01 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Hojczyk

I can’t imagine this “secret ballot” would work how they intended as it would require all of the nays to keep quiet about their acquittal vote. Can you imagine keeping quiet about your decision to kill this sham trial?

The fact that they would try this is quintessentially on-brand for The Stupid Party though.


22 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:05 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Hojczyk

Gee secret votes to disqualify people from running for office this is not a dictatorship is it?


23 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:07 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Hojczyk

You cannot make this stuff up.

The democrats and bureaucrats have tried for four years to criminalize political differences and now that they have all the power they are going to wield it with brute force.

In a contrarian way, I hope they go through with this. Trump should show the video of his comments and play a non-stop reel of videos of Pelosi and other democrats reaction to Antifa/BLM storming the White House and engaging in riots last year.

They will further energize Trump’s base, identify the feckless RINO’s, and in the end they will not have the votes to convict.

P.S. - this is a farce just like the impeachment last year was.


24 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:22 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Hojczyk

If they do, VOTE THEM ALL OUT


25 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:24 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Hojczyk

We won’t have to kill off the party if they do something that stupid. They will commit electoral suicide


26 posted on 01/25/2021 10:00:33 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: tennmountainman

I agree. If they agree to a secret vote, I do not care how they vote.

The GOP is playing with political suicide. They want Trump out but his MAGA voters go with him.


27 posted on 01/25/2021 10:01:04 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: tennmountainman

If they do a secret vote than people should make it clear that any CONVICT votes will be assumed to be from THEIR senator and they will be fired for it. Mitt Romney could be the only one to vote to convict and in a secret ballot I’ll assume that it came from every single one of them and primary them all.


28 posted on 01/25/2021 10:01:13 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Hojczyk

This is clickbait no way this will ever happen


29 posted on 01/25/2021 10:01:36 AM PST by Lod881019
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To: Hojczyk

Assume all votes are for conviction of a private citizen.

The GOP is so dead to us we revoked our voter registration. No sense voting GOP or giving legitimacy to the communist ballot fraud that stole a 410 electoral vote from Trump and We the People.


30 posted on 01/25/2021 10:01:59 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Hojczyk

Has the solemn masked parade from the House occurred? Everyone loves a parade!


31 posted on 01/25/2021 10:02:06 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Hojczyk

Sounds like the fix is in?


32 posted on 01/25/2021 10:02:18 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: tennmountainman

This is a constitutional republic. The whole point is that we know what they do so we can know who to vote for - or against - to represent us.

A secret vote violates the whole purpose of the system.


33 posted on 01/25/2021 10:02:23 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Hojczyk

There are no secret ballots in this country....except by the people.


34 posted on 01/25/2021 10:02:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: JWNM

If the vote is 51-49, then we will assume the one Republican was Romney (and he will probably be quick to say it was his vote), but if more than 51, then all Republicans are under suspicion. Those not planning to retire at the end of their current term must realize that.


35 posted on 01/25/2021 10:02:40 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: tennmountainman

Well, this would explain why Nanzi and DS cabal want continued NG presence.


36 posted on 01/25/2021 10:03:27 AM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation πŸ™πŸ»πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
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To: Hojczyk

It astonishes me why either side would want to create a martyr. Because that is EXACTLY what they will do.


37 posted on 01/25/2021 10:04:33 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Killer Joe: babies, jobs, tax cuts, he kills them all.)
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To: Hojczyk

Plantain republic. Che and Fidel would be proud


38 posted on 01/25/2021 10:04:40 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Hojczyk

On what planet is an elected representative allowed to hide his vote from his constituents ?!?!???


39 posted on 01/25/2021 10:04:43 AM PST by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: Hojczyk

Paraphrasing... “Primary em all and let God sort em out in their political afterlives”.


40 posted on 01/25/2021 10:05:32 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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