The Nebraska Republican Party on Saturday formally “reprimanded” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) For his vote to accuse former President Trump earlier this year, although it ceased to be formal censorship, CNN.
Why it’s important: Sasse is the latest among a list of Republicans who have faced some sort of punishment from their state party apparatus after voting to oust the former president. The senator responded to the statement Saturday, according to the Omaha World-Herald, saying that “most Nebraskans do not believe that politics should be about the strange cult of a man.”
The summary: “Senator Sasse’s condemnation of President Trump and his support for the removal of President Trump have been used liberally several times by Democrats as justification for a truncated removal process that denied the process due to the president,” the resolution, according to CNN.
- The party expressed “deep disappointment and sadness regarding the service of Senator Ben Sasse and calls for an immediate readjustment by which it represents the people of Nebraska in Washington and not Washington in the people of Nebraska.”
Sasse was reprimanded for the first time for the party in 2016, but was re-elected last fall with 63% of the vote, which is about 5 points more than Trump won in Nebraska.
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