Posted on 05/24/2021 5:03:39 PM PDT by cotton1706
right Republican Party.
“Are you uncomfortable remaining a member?” one reporter asked Scott after U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was dumped from GOP leadership this month for repudiating former President Donald Trump.
Scott’s response: “The big tent we talk about a lot within the party doesn’t appear to exist, and I think that’s really unfortunate. All I can do is continue to serve the people in a manner that is reputable, open and welcoming.”
But 20 years ago this week, another Vermonter did something explosively different. On May 24, 2001, then U.S. Sen. James Jeffords walked into a press-packed Burlington hotel ballroom and announced he was leaving the Republican Party, single-handedly tipping control of a 50-50 chamber to the Democrats.
“Mr. Jeffords Blows Up Washington,” shouted a subsequent cover of Newsweek.
The print magazine has given way to the internet, and the man who sparked the headline died in 2014. But as commentators debate whether today’s GOP is facing a “purge” or a “civil war,” they’re finding the inside story of Jeffords’s two-decade-old defection to be surprisingly relevant.
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Reminds me of Senator Sphincter of Penn. He switched parties during the Obama Regime . That gave the RATs the 60 votes they needed to ram through ZeroCare. The POS was defeated in the RAT primary and soon afterwards died. Good riddance.
The Demonrats have a big tent. They have both Marxists AND Stalinists.
Plenty of TransRepublicans will be re-elected again in 2022, Micro Rubio and John Hoeven being the most prominent Amnesty Senators up for re-election.
Which Scott said this?
Rick Scott, Assistant Democrat from FL
or
Tim Scott, Assistant Democrat from SC?
On May 24, 2001, then U.S. Sen. James Jeffords walked into a press-packed Burlington hotel ballroom and announced he was leaving the Republican Party, single-handedly tipping control of a 50-50 chamber to the Democrats.
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