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 ...
Alexander-would, Graham-wouldn’t, McSally-wouldn’t, Murkowsky-would, Hoeven-wouldn’t, Rubio-wouldn’t, Tillis-wouldn’t, Burr-would, Lankford-wouldn’t, Gardner-wouldn’t, Cornyn-wouldn’t, Hyde-Smith-wouldn’t, Collins-would, Sasse-would, Kennedy-wouldn’t, Shelby-wouldn’t, Ernst-wouldn’t, Blunt-wouldn’t, McConnell-wouldn’t, Wicker-wouldn’t, Portman-wouldn’t, Isakson-wouldn’t, Johnson-wouldn’t, Toomey-wouldn’t, Rounds-wouldn’t, Thune-wouldn’t, Gaines-wouldn’t, Romney-would, Lee-wouldn’t, Barasso-wouldn’t and Enzi-wouldn’t..
35 Senators want to be retired!? They would be Dead Men Walking.
Newsweak
Jeff Flake
Nuff said
If Sasse voted to remove Trump from office, I would run against him here in NE.
Me and about 100 others. LOL
If senators could somehow keep their vote secret, I think he gets convicted by a huge margin. I know I don’t really trust any politician who makes it to the national level. The only thing that really keeps any of these people honest is that they will lose their next reelection effort.
Freegards
Another observation by LS at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3781939/posts?page=82#82
If true, my prediction for those 35 is.....PAIN.
Which would not vote to impeach Trump is the question
The thing on our side is this is why we hired him. We know it and he knows it
He is one of us. Don’t let wealth envy get in the way of discernment. He is one of us, a patriot. He knows these people he knows the GOP in congress are the enablers.
Run, he needs replacing anyway. 8>)
GOOD!
Maine has an independent guy for Senator I think.
If they thought they could win with Pence.
The only "good" thing to come out of the Senate convicting Trump is it would be the absolute end to the Republican Party.
< /Speculation >
I am not so sure because it seems to me that most “conservatives” are anti tariff globalists
Jeff Flake is a worthless POS. Just like Romney.
Here’s 11 that would do it: Burr, Lee, Rommney, Sasse, Collins, Murkowski, Alexander, Portman, Toomey, Rubio, McSally.
This is jive. Anyone would destroy themselves.
The answer is zero. Senators do not get to vote to impeach.
Newsweak fake journalist has brain damage.
I doubt there are more than five or six GOP senators who would vote to convict. Mittens, for sure; then I’d say Sasse, the Bobsy Twins (Murkowski and Collins), and Alexander. Maybe McSally.
That is the kind of numbers Breitbart News just mentioned.
Another informative read on this is
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3781939/posts?page=82#82
It is maddening to the left to that they aren’t getting traction on this. People are tired of it.
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