FIRST READ: Look at this new Senate candidate to check the GOP civil war score
As Republican senators consider the evidence the Democrats presented in Donald Trump’s indictment – a former president who wanted to overturn the election results and incite a violent mob – it’s worth the platform and rhetoric of a GOP candidate to study who wants to participate in them the Senate.
“In Washington, I will pulverize the Uniparty – the cabal of Democrats and Republicans that sounds the same and stands for nothing,” said Republican Josh Mandel announces he wants to replace Senate to replace retired Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
“I would like to advance the America First Trump agenda and expel Anthony Gonzalez!” Almonds also tweeted yesterday, referring to the GOP congressman from Ohio who voted to accuse Trump.
Now Mandel is not exactly a new candidate for the Senate. He lost to Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in 2012 and stepped down from a possible second chance with Brown in 2018. But when we ask whether Trumpism wins or loses within the Republican Party – even after the events of January 6 – the direction of Mandel’s candidacy tells you everything you need to know.
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Sen. Thune says the house managers’ arguments against Trump are ‘very, very compelling’
Senate minority whip John Thune, RS.D., after watching the new video from January 6, said that the case being brought before the House of Representatives for indictment was “very compelling” and suggested that he not rule out vote to convict former President Donald Trump.
The executives had a “strong, strong submission, put together in a way that I think makes it very compelling,” Thune told reporters on Wednesday.
Asked if the presentations so far have had an impact on what he thinks of the trial, he said: “I kept saying I was going to listen to the arguments and look at the evidence, and I do.”
Thune said the executives were ‘very, very effective’, and when asked if he saw the link between Trump’s actions and the violence on January 6, he said: ‘They did a good job getting the points across. to connect. ‘
Senators respond to new evidence of how much danger they faced on January 6
Senators were shocked on Wednesday when Democratic accusation leaders gave them new details about how close to the violent crowd of Trump’s supporters they were on January 6.
While Representative Swalwell has not previously played footage of how close the rioters got to the Senate, minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Expressionless but observant, sits folded on his lap. Majority leader Schumer had a hand on his forehead.
The room was in absolute silence when Swalwell showed the moment of Ashli Babbitt’s death. There was a longer silence of about ten seconds as he showed new security footage of how close the rioters got to the Senate Hall – and asked them to suggest if they had breached the room just minutes earlier.
Some of the six Republicans who voted in favor of the constitutionality of the Senate hearing sat side by side – Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
As Swalwell shows evidence that Schumer has an ‘almost-miss with the mob’, the New York Democrat nodded in agreement.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, watched attentively but non-reactively as he watched the video captured by a reporter for the New Yorker of a riot that takes Cruz’s name to plunder the Senate to justify.
Footage shows Schumer, Romney almost missing the mob
House officials on Wednesday played video of senators experiencing near miss with the mob.
One of the closest calls was apparently Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., who went down on Capitol footage in a hallway with his security detail, only to quickly turn around and start running in the opposite direction.
Just before this the Rep. Eric Swalwell played footage showing a number of senators leaving the room and later running through a hallway to safety.
Schumer’s footage reflects an earlier security camera that was chased down a hallway by Capitol Hill police officer Eugene Goodman and sent to sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, signaled that he had to turn around and go another way. Romney turned quickly and began to leave hurriedly.
Swalwell showed the new footage of the escape, which members of Congress deliberately withheld for safety reasons.
The footage created the composition of the senators, who serve as jurors in the trial and had to oversee how their own escape from rioters behaves, and that their desks are also smashed.
Romney later said he did not know on January 6 how close he was to the mob when he walked down a hallway before Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman blew him in the other direction.
Short confusion on the floor as Sen Lee demands that Trump be withdrawn
House executives made a small retreat after a rally by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that Democrats incorrectly proposed a call Trump made to him to speak to Senator Tommy Tuberville , R-Ala., Amid the riot in Capitol. .
Lee said he wants a portion of Rep. Cicilline’s presentation on the call had to be knocked off the record, which led to a brief chaos in the Senate when Democrats and Republicans tried to figure out how to proceed. The situation was resolved after Representative Jamie Raskin, the General Manager of the House, offered to make a brief statement explaining the earlier remarks.
“The indictment manager quoted a newspaper account correctly and accurately,” Raskin said of the comments and the relevant CNN article. “We would like to withdraw it on the grounds that it is not true. We are going to withdraw it tonight.”
The Maryland Democrat added that the ordeal was “very difficult over nothing, because it does not matter to us.”
Lee talked about how Cicilline described his role in Trump’s call to Tuberville during the riot, although he did not explain what was inaccurate about the remarks.
As both CNN and The Deseret News reported, Trump accidentally called Lee while talking to Tuberville, with CNN reporting that Trump wanted to talk to the first-year Alabama senator about further objections to the election. Lee’s office confirmed to CNN that the call happened.
Castro details the timeline of Trump’s public messages during riots
House leaders focus on Trump’s failure to act after riots erupted
House leaders focus their argument Wednesday on Trump’s failure to act while the riot continues.
Rep. David Cicilline, DR.I., began describing the president’s actions during the riot, referring to his tweets promoting his protest and attacking Pence because the Capitol was attacked, as well as reports saying the president was watching the proceedings. . on TV.
Cicilline then asked the senators a rhetorical question: What did Trump do to help them while Democrats and Republicans reached out to him and the White House?
“Nothing,” Cicilline said. “Not a thing.”
Cicilline mentioned the president’s attempt to reach Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., To get him to voice additional objections to the Electoral College’s votes as the riot raged. He then contrasts it with footage of what was going on in and around the Capitol at the time.
House Republicans who voted to accuse Trump say his hours-long delay in trying to stop the riot is influential in their vote.
‘Hard memory’: important take-away from day 2 of the trial
Democrats on Wednesday played a disturbing new video of the riot that showed how riotous people who want to harm legislation were tracked down on January 6, and on the second day of former President Donald Trump’s indictment provoked raw emotions.
While the indictment managers recounted their experiences on January 6 in emotional terms, they tried to get senators to relive their own near miss with the mob that invaded the U.S. capital.
It is unclear whether they moved Republicans, and it is unlikely a two-thirds majority will vote to convict. But the Democrats, who accused Trump of having a “single responsibility” for the assault, were determined to remind members of his party that their own safety and lives were in danger after speaking to a crowd of supporters has what soon became violent and the Capitol.
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