Senate Republicans, including those who have no plans to vote to convict ex President Trump
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From the point of view of some Republican senators, the compelling case filed by House prosecutors has a silver line: it means they probably won’t have to worry about Trump running for president again in three years, while which at the same time erodes its influence on the party politics more generally.
Several Republican senators were irritated watching videos of the violence and chaos inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, including images of police calling themselves “pigs” and “traitors” and an officer shouting as he was crushed by the riots that they were attacking a police line.
Interspersed with the traumatic scenes were clips of Trump urging his followers to march on the Capitol, warning them that “if you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore,” and tell them “we love you; you’re very special “, shortly after the attack.
“It just makes you realize what an idiot Donald Trump is,” a Republican Party senator said after watching the second day of the House managers ’presentation.
The lawmaker suggested Democrats could ultimately help the Republican Party oust Trump.
“Unintentionally, they are doing us a favor. They are making Donald Trump disqualified from running for president,” even if he is acquitted, the senator said.
Other Republican senators, including those who have indicated they will vote by acquittal, say it would be good for the indictment to help distance Trump’s party, which has thoroughly dominated Republican Party policy for the past five years.
“I can’t imagine the emotional reaction, the visceral reaction to what we’ve seen today doesn’t make people think,‘ That’s horrible, ’whatever their opinion on whether the president should be accused or convicted,” one said another Republican Party senator. “What would stand out to my teammates is that there was no rescue, there was nothing that ended it.”
Chamber dismissal managers stressed that the National Guard did not deploy until two hours after the attack on the Capitol, which delayed the arrival of troops until five in the afternoon of that day.
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Democratic prosecutors also filed a report stating that the leader of the House minorities Kevin McCarthy
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“This reminded and confirmed and probably added a deeper emotion to the vision that the president’s involvement in the party, although it brought new people, is very detrimental to who we are, what we believe and what we stand for, what we think we stand up, ”the second Republican senator said.
The senator said many voters think “Trump is a huge problem for Republicans,” though he acknowledged that there are many Republican Party voters who think the former president has been “surrounded” by the establishment.
“This is very detrimental to any future political career for President Trump, but I was amazed at the amount and intensity of support despite all the other things that have happened,” the senator added.
His. Lisa Murkowski
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“After the American public sees the full story set out here … I don’t see how Donald Trump could be re-elected to the presidency,” Murkowski told reporters Wednesday.
Other Republicans said in private that they agreed with that assessment.
A third Republican senator said the facts set forth in the impeachment trial underscore how difficult it would be for Trump to run as a candidate for the 2024 eligible presidency.
“I think the door is closed [Trump] the chapter is probably positive overall, ”the senator said.
But the lawmaker acknowledged that “it’s a bit of a dance” because many party voters still like Trump and show sympathy for his claims that the election was influenced by unfair decisions on absentee ballots.
“We have to be careful as a party to embrace these people and the big question is,‘ Were they just Trump Republicans and not Republicans? ’” Said the senator, who predicted that incursions can be made with these voters by clicking the same issues Trump did during his presidency, such as pressuring schools to reopen to learn in person during the pandemic.
Polls show that most Americans believe Trump should be convicted, a change of sentiment compared to his first trial of dismissal in 2020.
A CBS News / YouGov poll released on Tuesday showed that 56% supported Trump’s conviction, with 44% against.
In December 2019, shortly before Trump’s first impeachment trial, a CBS News / YouGov poll found that only 42% of respondents supported the conviction.
The New York Times reported last month on the Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell
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McConnell has not spoken to Trump since Dec. 15 and has made it clear to GOP colleagues that they are free to vote their conscience on whether to convict Trump of the accusation he incited in the Jan. 6 riot. At least six Republican senators have indicated they are seriously weighing a vote for a conviction.
A fourth Republican senator agreed that Trump’s power in the party has received a severe blow due to detailed exposition of his behavior in the run-up to the Capitol attack and its subsequent actions.
“It certainly hasn’t been helpful for him to have all this discussed and related. In his case, that doesn’t mean he didn’t run, even if he knew he couldn’t win,” the legislator added.
If winning the Republican nomination in 2024 seems increasingly remote, Trump may not want to risk losing twice in the presidential election, lawmakers say.
But they warn that even with a decline in power, Trump will remain a powerful force.
“Even if he cannot be the candidate, even if he could not be elected, he will continue to be part of this discussion for a while,” the senator added.