Posted on 10/08/2022 4:21:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
With Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse's retirement, 11 of the 17 Republicans who voted to impeach or convict former President Donald Trump in 2021 have now opted not to seek re-election or have lost their primary races this year.
Sasse announced Thursday he is stepping down to lead the University of Florida. The Nebraska Republican came to the Senate after a stint as the president of Midland University, and his public statements about his decision to join Florida do not mention Trump at all. He went as far as to tell National Review “the impeachment vote has exactly zero to do with this.”
But his decision does mean that three of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump will retire this cycle — Sasse, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces a competitive re-election fight from a Trump-backed opponent, while the remaining three aren't on the ballot this cycle.
And that comes after a primary cycle where out of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, four decided to retire and four lost primaries to candidates who used their vote as a wedge issue.
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Sasse . May his tenure at the college be a short one. Another RINO!
“Now we need to find ways to make those same people suffer personal consequences.”
Pull a Ted Stevens lawsuit on each one of them, that drags out for at least 5 years. That would be a good start!
I still blame Paul Ryan he is the real Judas
“I wish we had better State GOP leadership, even though I personally like Caleb Heimlich a Hillsdale College graduate...”
He’s been a huge disappointment.
Voters memories are longer than politicians think.
I am not much of an Interior Decorator-—BUT that won’t be on my walls.
We should encourage more RINOs to become University Presidents.
It’s a Win-Win, we get the RINOs out of office, and actually folks like Sasse are much more conservative than most University Presidents.
I’m glad my Alma Mater “Took One For The Team”.
They are just children flipping the bird on the way out the door.
let it be a learning experience for the rest of them...
Sending them home is enough... we’re not thugs like the democrats.
Hopefully so.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Good idea - a twofer.
“Sending them home is enough... we’re not thugs like the democrats”
Unfortunately, our side fighting with a sense of honor is a main reason we are losing this war.
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