The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has publicly named 21 Republican senators he says have “repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for [Donald] Trump and his fitness” for office.
As Trump continued to try to subvert the results of a presidential election he clearly lost to Joe Biden, Bernstein said on Twitter he was “not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially [sic]”.
His information, he said, came from “colleagues, staff members, lobbyists [and] White House aides”.
Then he named names.
They were:
- Rob Portman (Ohio),
- Lamar Alexander (Tennessee),
- Ben Sasse (Nebraska),
- Roy Blunt (Missouri),
- Susan Collins (Maine),
- Lisa Murkowski (Alaska),
- John Cornyn (Texas),
- John Thune (South Dakota),
- Mitt Romney (Utah),
- Mike Braun and Todd Young (Indiana),
- Tim Scott (South Carolina),
- Rick Scott and Marco Rubio (Florida),
- Chuck Grassley (Iowa),
- Richard Burr (North Carolina),
- Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania),
- Martha McSally (Arizona),
- Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts (Kansas) and
- Richard Shelby (Alabama).
Shelby has always been my hold the nose, then shower vote...
Must have derailed their gravy train...
Tim Scott and Rick Scott are the only two on that list that surprise me.
Bush League Republicans all.
Democrats wearing R jerseys as camouflage.