According to reports, the North Carolina Republican Party will hold a vote Monday to decide whether the senator. Richard Burr
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According to The Associated Press, the chapter said its central committee will meet to hold the vote Monday night.
The censure vote comes after the group condemned Burr after he joined six more Republicans this Saturday who voted Saturday to condemn Trump accused of inciting the Jan. 6 insurgency at the Capitol.
Trump was acquitted after the upper house voted to sentence him to 57 to 43 years. At least two-thirds of the House, or 67 senators, would have had to vote in favor of the conviction for Trump to be found guilty of the charge.
North Carolina GOP President Michael Whatley assassinated Burr within hours of voting on Saturday.
“Republicans in North Carolina sent Senator Burr to the U.S. Senate to confirm the Constitution and his vote today to convict him in a trial he declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing,” Whatley said.
Burr’s vote to convict was somewhat surprising, as he had previously voted that the trial was unconstitutional.
Burr, who is retiring instead of seeking a fourth term in 2022, said in a statement Saturday that when the dismissal began, “he believed it was unconstitutional to accuse a president who was no longer in office.” who still believes that “this will be so.”
However, the Republican senator added in the statement that “the evidence is convincing that President Trump is guilty of inciting insurrection against an egalitarian branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. “.
“I have listened to the arguments presented by both parties and considered the facts. The facts are clear,” he said.
“The president promoted unfounded conspiracy theories to question the integrity of a free and fair election because he did not like the results. When Congress met to certify the election results, the president directed his supporters to go to the polls. Chapter to break the lawful procedures required by the Constitution, “he continued.
“When the crowd turned violent, the president used his office to ignite the situation instead of immediately calling for an end to the assault,” he also said.
Burr and the other Republicans who voted to condemn the former president have quickly faced reaction from their home states and other party members in Congress.
The Louisiana Republican Party voted Saturday to censor the senator. Bill Cassidy
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