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.
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I think I watched the effective end of the Republican party during the primary campaigns of 2016.
Rinse and repeat.
We can play games too
I called and emailed sasse. Let him know that if he doesn’t stand with President Trump I will never vote for him.
Flake is just trying to give hope to the House Dems that their impeachment vote is not in vain.
Romney 17 times and Flake 18 times!
Flake says what?
Who cares.
Romney 17 times and Flake 18 times! Not many others.
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.
Flake is no longer a senator.
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.
The ones who are retiring?
Hey don’t try and talk people here out of their hand-wringing despair!
“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.
When in danger,
When in doubt,
Run in circles
Scream and shout!
Just one. Minion.
We ‘ll find out who the criminals are. Go Trump !
Jeff Flake is an idiot.
If they do, it will be the end of the Republican party. Conservatives would consider it a betrayal.
“Flake is no longer a senator.”
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But he is still a sack of *hit.
Really? I don't. Wonder, I mean.
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