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Which GOP Senators Would Vote to Impeach Trump? Jeff Flake Says There Are 35
Newsweek ^ | September 28, 2019 | Jennifer Doherty

Posted on 09/28/2019 5:37:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Senator Jeff Flake caused a stir Saturday when he amended Republican consultant Mike Murphy's comment that 30 GOP senators would vote to impeach President Donald Trump if they could keep their votes secret. "That's not true," the former Arizona senator said. "There would be at least 35."

Until his retirement from the Senate earlier this year, Flake was among the small but notable cohort of Republican senators who remained vocal in their opposition to Trump after the election.

While most of the Senate's 53 Republican members have stuck to the White House's talking points since the House of Representatives officially launched its impeachment inquiry Tuesday, some have stopped short of towing the party's "witch hunt" line, while others have previously voiced opposition to the president that may come back to bite him.

Flake puts the number of Republicans willing to secretly oppose Trump at 35, well above the 20 who would have to publicly denounce him in order to reach the two-thirds supermajority of 67 senators, assuming all 45 Senate Democrats and both independent senators also voted to impeach. Here are 12 possibilities.

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


TOPICS: Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: gop; impeachment; republicans; senate
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To: dljordan

I think I watched the effective end of the Republican party during the primary campaigns of 2016.


41 posted on 09/28/2019 6:15:29 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump is impeached and convicted, President Pence nominates Trump as VP. Then resigns. Trump names Pence VP.

Rinse and repeat.

We can play games too

42 posted on 09/28/2019 6:23:28 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I called and emailed sasse. Let him know that if he doesn’t stand with President Trump I will never vote for him.


43 posted on 09/28/2019 6:26:07 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Flake is just trying to give hope to the House Dems that their impeachment vote is not in vain.


44 posted on 09/28/2019 6:26:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Romney 17 times and Flake 18 times!


45 posted on 09/28/2019 6:28:55 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon ( THE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Flake says what?

Who cares.


46 posted on 09/28/2019 6:30:32 PM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Romney 17 times and Flake 18 times! Not many others.


47 posted on 09/28/2019 6:33:38 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon ( THE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It takes 67 guilty votes to convict in the Senate. There are 47 Dems. Unless they caught Trump sleeping with a dead woman or live boy while making that call to the Ukraine, I don’t see where they’re going to get the votes other than Mittens crossing over to vote with them.


48 posted on 09/28/2019 6:35:03 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: I am Richard Brandon

Flake is no longer a senator.


49 posted on 09/28/2019 6:35:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Flycatcher

Thank you. Lots of defeatism on these threads.

Any GOP senator who would vote against Trump is committing political suicide.

They don’t have to like him — but he’s a proven winner. They could do well to learn a few lesson on how to win.


50 posted on 09/28/2019 6:38:58 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ones who are retiring?


51 posted on 09/28/2019 6:41:32 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flycatcher

Hey don’t try and talk people here out of their hand-wringing despair!


52 posted on 09/28/2019 6:58:06 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: TexasGurl24

“There are not 20 from your list who would
Vote to convict for this Ukraine nonsense. Many of these are already on record against it.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Quite so. Thanks for counteracting the hysteria on this thread.


53 posted on 09/28/2019 6:59:48 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Artcore

When in danger,
When in doubt,
Run in circles
Scream and shout!


54 posted on 09/28/2019 7:03:19 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just one. Minion.


55 posted on 09/28/2019 7:07:55 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We ‘ll find out who the criminals are. Go Trump !


56 posted on 09/28/2019 7:12:35 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jeff Flake is an idiot.


57 posted on 09/28/2019 7:14:51 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they do, it will be the end of the Republican party. Conservatives would consider it a betrayal.


58 posted on 09/28/2019 7:22:38 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Flake is no longer a senator.”
___________________________________________

But he is still a sack of *hit.


59 posted on 09/28/2019 7:27:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: grania
Sometimes I wonder if there’s more than a handful who actually want to fight corruption.

Really? I don't. Wonder, I mean.

60 posted on 09/28/2019 7:29:14 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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