Republican U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse is facing more opposition in his native Nebraska because he criticized former President Trump.
Last week, the local Republican Party apparently voted in the state’s largest conservative county to help other provinces in their effort to reprimand Sasse, 48, a Nebraska resident who has served in the Senate since 2015.
Sarpy County Republicans voted 2-1 on Thursday to join the Scotts Bluff and Hitchcock counties to officially condemn Sasse for attacking Trump’s unsuccessful attempts to reverse the election results, and for claiming Trump had the January 6 riot at the U.S. capital, the Omaha World-Herald, was fueled. report.
Sasse, who easily won re-election in November, is an outspoken critic of the former president and has previously been condemned by his homeland.
Robert Anthony, a resident of Sarpy County, voted for no confidence.
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“Sasse says he’s only here to defend the Constitution, but Sarpy’s Republicans feel that people are trampling on the Constitution all the time,” Anthony said.
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Speaks on Capitol Hill, Washington, January 19, 2021. (Associated Press)
Anthony said he and other Republicans in Nebraska believe Sasse opportunistically supported the then president until Sasse won his Senate election, after which the senator returned to criticize Trump.
Sarpy County’s censorship proposal focuses on Sasse’s ‘character attacks’, according to the World Herald.
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Sasse, untouched by the threat, defended himself in a video released Thursday to members of the Republican Central Committee. The committee will vote on February 13 on whether to lick him.
“You are welcome to censor me again,” Sasse said in the video, “but let’s be clear why this is happening. It’s because I still believe that politics is not about the strange worship of one man.
“Let us be clear: the anger in this state party has never been about me violating the principle or abandoning conservative policies – I am one of the most conservative voters in the Senate – the anger has always been about not the knee does not bend for one man., “Sasse emphasized. “Personality cults are not conservative. Conspiracy theories are not conservative. It is not conservative to lie that an election was stolen.”
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Douglas County Republican Party chairman Christian Mirch told the newspaper his members had not received a motion of no confidence and ‘Instead, the DCRP is set to move forward as a united party, with a view to on our shared conservative values. ‘
Fox Stein’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.