Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine leaves her second impeachment trial against former President Trump on February 12, one of seven Republicans who voted against him on February 13.
The Maine Republican Party is discussing and considering a resolution of censure against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for defying public opinion and voting against former President Trump during his impeachment trial in the Senate.
According to local news reports, the state’s county Republican chairmen met on Monday (Feb. 16) to discuss how to “respond” to Collins’ 13th reversal of the vote to convict the former president on the side of Democrats.
The Senate voted 57 to 43 on the 13th to acquit Trump, a total of seven Republican senators reversed to join the Democratic Party vote, that Trump is guilty.
Collins is reported to have heard from county Republicans on the impeachment conviction before the impeachment vote – “100 percent against impeachment.”
The Bangor Daily News, a local media outlet, reported that the state Republican Party’s vote on Collins could be completed by the end of February.
“Many of you are as upset as we are about what happened today,” Maine Republican Party Chairman Demi Kouzounas said in an email to members following last weekend’s final impeachment vote, “and are ready to call a state committee soon emergency meeting” to discuss Collins’ guilty vote.
A spokesman for Collins did not immediately return a request for comment.
Waldo County Republican Party Chairwoman Katrina Smith told the Bangor Daily News that Collins had listened to county Republicans’ thoughts on impeachment before the vote last week, noting that county leaders had said they were “100 percent against impeachment.
Collins was one of seven Republican senators to fall back on House Democrats’ accusation that Trump incited a violent attack on Congress on Jan. 6.
“My vote in this trial stems from my own duty to defend the Constitution of the United States,” Collins said on the floor in defense of his vote, “President Trump’s abuse of power and betrayal of his oath of office meet the constitutional standards for high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Romney’s critics are also pushing for a motion to censure him
Critics of Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah are also pushing a censure motion against him.
Romney was the only Republican in either chamber of Congress to vote against Trump in the first impeachment trial, and he also voted to convict him in the second.
In a public censure motion, Romney’s critics wrote that Romney has failed repeatedly and that he “fails to represent the average conservative Republican voter in Utah.
The motion also says Romney has misrepresented himself as a Republican and “prioritized his personal and political revenge against Trump” at the expense of the party and the U.S. Constitution.
But the Utah Republican Party chairman downplayed the significance of the censure deal and said his focus was on retaining new Republican voters and pulling back those who had left the party.
The Utah Republican Party issued a statement on votes like Romney’s saying that different voices are welcome in the Republican Party – another Utah senator, Mike Lee, had a vote of not guilty, which is better than having only one voice in the party.
Romney was elected in 2018, and he will face a re-election challenge in 2024.
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