His. Ben Sasse
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Sasse on Thursday released a five-minute video in response to home Republican officials who want to censor him at a Republican State Central Committee meeting on Feb. 13 because of his criticism of Trump.
He warned that removing Trump skeptics from the Republican Party is not “just a civic cancer for the nation [but] just terrible for our party. ”
Sasse, who did not support Trump’s candidacy in 2016 or 2020, fired his critics from the state party for being “angry for life” and out of step with the usual Nebraskans.
“I listen to Nebraskans every day and very few are as angry with life as some of the people on this committee. Not all, but a lot, “Sasse said in the video.” Political addicts do not represent the majority of Nebraska conservatives. “
Sasse is one of several Republican officials attacked for criticizing Trump.
Rep. Liz Cheney
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Local Republican Party organizations across the country have moved in recent days to punish Republican lawmakers who voted against Trump last month.
The Republican Central Committee of La Salle County voted Wednesday to censor the rep. Adam Kinzinger
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But Sasse stands firm. In the video released Thursday, he blamed Trump for inciting the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that left one police officer and four others dead.
“Now, many of you have been hacked because I condemned your lies that led to a riot. Let’s be clear: the rage of the state party has never been for my violation of the principle or abandonment of conservative politics. I am one of the most conservative voters in the Senate. Anger has always been simply for him not to bend a boy’s knee, ”Sasse said, looking directly into the camera to address state party officials.
Sasse called the Capitol storm “ugly” on Jan. 6 and said “shameful mafia violence to disrupt a congressional meeting with a constitutional mandate to assert … the peaceful transfer of power” was the result of Trump spreading lies about the results of the 2020 Election.
“It simply came to our notice then. He lied about the election results for 60 days, despite losing 60 consecutive judicial challenges, many of them delivered by wonderful judges appointed by Trump, ”Sasse said.
He said Trump also lied by saying the then vice president Mike Pence
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“That wasn’t true,” Sasse said.
“Then he annoyed a crowd that attacked the capitol, many singing ‘Hang Pence.’ If this president were a Democrat, we both know how you would respond. But since he had ‘Republican’ behind his name, defend him,” he added. Sasse, scolding his critics.
Sasse is one of five Republican senators who last week voted to table a motion from the senator. Rand Paul
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Sasse said Republicans who have accepted Trump’s claims of stealing elections are moving away from their basic conservative beliefs and urged them to preserve the Republican Party’s identity as a party founded on long-standing principles rather than mere allegiance. to the former president.
“Something has definitely changed in the last four years, but it’s not me,” he said. “Personality cults are not conservative. Conspiracy theories are not conservative. Lying that an election has been stolen is not conservative. Acting like politics is a religion, not conservative.”
Sasse said a majority of Nebraska voters agreed with him and noted his 2020 re-election campaign, in which he garnered tens of thousands more votes than Trump in the state in November.
He noted that he won the Omaha area “very well” while Trump lost it by “a lot.”
“The Nebraskans are not addicted to rage and that is good news. We invite you to censor me again, but let’s be clear about why this is happening, it’s because I still believe that, as you used to, politics shouldn’t be about the strange cult of a man, ”he said.
The Nebraska Republican Party censured Sasse in May 2016 for not being a strong supporter of Trump.
Sasse won his Republican Senate primary in May 2020 by a wide margin, setting a record for votes received by a candidate for federal office in the Nebraska primaries.
He led all 93 counties in the state during the general election.
“We will have to choose between conservatism and madness, between just being a troll and persuading the growing American generation again,” he said.
“I have focused on that and I sincerely hope that many of you will join us in celebrating these great causes that are worthwhile for freedom,” he added. “I’ll always work hard for Nebraskans and I’ll always tell you the truth.”