Sen. Lindsey Graham
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“The biggest winner of this whole indictment is Lara Trump,” Graham told Fox News Sunday. “My dear friend Richard Burr
Richard Mauze Burr North Carolina GOP condemns Burr for accusation against Trump Toomey over Trump vote: ‘His betrayal of the Constitution’ requires conviction Trump conviction vote exposes GOP division MORE, whom I have long loved and been friends with, Lara Trump just made the certain nominee for the North Carolina Senate seat to replace him when she’s running, and I’ll definitely be behind her because she’s the future of the Republican represents Party. ”
Burr, a retiring Republican, voted Saturday to convict former President Trump of the only article that sparked an uprising over the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.
“The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an uprising against an equal branch of government and that the charge is rising to the level of high-profile crimes and crimes,” Burr said in a statement on Saturday. “That’s why I voted to be found guilty.”
The North Carolina GOP condemned Burr hours later and sided with the former president.
“North Carolina Republicans have sent Senator Burr to the U.S. Senate to uphold the Constitution and she is voting today to plead guilty in a trial to being declared unconstitutional shocking and disappointing,” the party chairman said.
The other Republican senator from the state, Thom Tillis
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A poll conducted late last year showed Lara Trump as the favorite among potential Republican primary candidates to fill Burr’s vacancy. She is married to former president’s son Eric and has been a leading replacement for both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
Graham, a leading Republican in the Republican caucus, also said on Sunday that Congress had “opened up a Pandora’s box for future presidents” and “abused” the model of the legislature’s check on the executive.
‘I do not know how [Vice President] “Harris is not being accused of Republicans taking over the House because he really saved rioters, and one of the rioters went back to the streets and broke someone’s head,” Graham said in an apparent reference to social justice protests. what place over the summer.