Former U.S. President Donald Trump (Trump) has remained popular within the Republican Party after leaving office, with more and more Republican lawmakers more clearly supporting Trump and Republican voters urging their state Republican congressmen to support him.
In a vote on Tuesday (Jan. 26), 45 Republican senators in the Senate opposed a second impeachment trial against Trump, signaling that the impeachment is dead in the water.
According to an NBC News poll released on Jan. 17, Trump has the support of 87 percent of Republicans, nearly the same level as before the November election.
North Dakota U.S. Senator “grateful” for Trump message
North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R) has been heavily criticized by his Home state constituents after he publicly criticized Trump for instigating the Jan. 6 congressional riots, the Washingtontimes reported Jan. 26. After receiving a call from a Trump aide on Saturday, he said he was “very grateful.
Kramer said Brian Jack, the White House political director during the Trump Administration, called him and said, “The president wants me to thank you again for all your support over the years.
Jack told Kramer that Trump wanted to dispel rumors that he was “forming a third party” and wanted Kramer’s help in telling the public that Trump did not want to form a third party and that all of his political activities were within the Republican Party.
Kramer said he was “grateful” and “comforted” by the call from a Trump aide, “I’m happy to help spread the word,” he said. “I got a lot of flak back home for not being completely loyal to Trump (before).”
Republican House members who support Trump’s impeachment criticized in their states
A total of 10 Republican federal House members also voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment on Jan. 13, when the House voted 232 to 197 to impeach him. One of the more high-profile candidates was Wyoming Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
On Jan. 16, the Republican Party of Carbon County, Wyoming, unanimously passed a censure of Cheney in favor of impeaching President Trump, the first Republican committee action against a member of Congress. There were more calls to remove Cheney from the Republican Party leadership.
Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has always been a strong supporter of Trump, announced that he will hold a major event in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the 28th to launch the campaign to remove Cheney from office.
In Arizona, President Trump’s staunch supporter Kelli Ward was re-elected as chair of the state Republican Party last Saturday, Jan. 23, and under her leadership, the GOP has criticized Republican Gov. Doug Ducey (R), former Sen. Jeff Flake (R) and Sen. McCain’s widow for not supporting Trump enough. (Cindy McCain).
Oregon Republican Resolution: Congressional Incident a Plant
In another sign of Trump’s prestige among Republicans, the Oregon Republican Party approved a resolution on Jan. 19 to censure the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump.
The Oregon Republican Party also called the congressional riots a “false flag” operation aimed at discrediting the Republican Party and Trump.
The state said in a statement that the Jan. 6 congressional incident was “similar to the arson of the German Reichstag in February 1933” (editor’s note: Hitler used the Reichstag arson to frame other parties and then took control of the Reichstag, achieving a one-party dictatorship.
The statement continued, “The record shows that President Trump in no way incited the violence, which began 20 minutes before the end of his speech (a long way from the Capitol).”
More Republican senators oppose Trump’s impeachment
The Washington Times reports that Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas was one of three Republicans present in the Senate this past Monday night as Democratic House selectmen began impeachment proceedings.
“It was more emotional than I thought it would be,” Marshall recalled. “I sat there and listened to the content of the impeachment, and it was shocking how irresponsible it made me feel that some people were so emotional in their hatred of President Trump, that the president had left office, and that their actions were unconstitutional.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) filed a motion to impeach the former president for violating constitutional procedures, calling for a vote on the constitutionality of the impeachment trial, which resulted in 45 Republican Senators in the Senate supporting the dismissal of a second impeachment trial against Trump.
Graham: Republicans will rally around Trump’s policies
The Washington Times reports that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that most Republicans will eventually unite around Trump’s policies.
“To make sure that the Republican Party can grow and get back (into politics), we need Trump, and Trump needs us,” Graham said. “The best way for us to do that is to keep Trump’s policies alive.”
Graham, who spoke with Trump on Monday night, said Trump is now “relaxing” at his vacation home in Florida.
Graham added that nothing will come of the impeachment and that “he (Trump) is putting together a legal team and he just needs to keep doing his thing and the impeachment will be over in a couple of weeks.”
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