Sen. Ben Sasse
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Sasse released a five-minute video on Thursday in response to Republican officials at home seeking to condemn him at a February 15 meeting of the Republican State Committee for his criticism of Trump.
He warned that the purge of GOP Trump skeptics was not just civilian cancer for the country [but] just awful for our party. ”
Sasse, who did not support Trump’s candidacy in 2016 or 2020, dismissed his critics in the state party as ‘angry about life’ and out of step with regular Nebraskans.
‘I listen to Nebraskans every day and very few of them are as angry about life as some people on this committee. Not all of you, but many, “Sasse said in the video. Political addicts do not represent the most conservatives in Nebraska. “
Sasse is one of several Republican officials who are under attack for criticizing Trump.
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Local Republican Party organizations across the country have moved in recent days to punish Republican lawmakers who voted against Trump last month.
The Republican Central Committee of La Salle County on Wednesday voted to Rep. Adam Kinzinger
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But Sasse stands firm. In the video released Thursday, he blamed Trump for inciting the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that left a police officer and four others dead.
‘Now, many of you have been cut off that I have condemned his lies that led to a riot. Let us be clear: the anger in the 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 simply that I did not bend the knee for one man,” Sasse said, looking directly at the camera to address government officials.
Sasse calls the January 6 storm the Capitol ‘ugly’ and says the ‘disgraceful mob violence to disrupt a constitutional mandate of Congress to confirm … peaceful transfer of power’ was a result of Trump’s lies spread across the results of the 2020 election.
“It happened because the president lied to you. “He lied about the election results for 60 days, despite the fact that he lost 60 direct court challenges, many of which were expressed by wonderful Trump-appointed judges,” Sasse said.
He said Trump also lied by saying the then vice president Mike Pence
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“That was not true,” Sasse said.
‘Then he kicked up a crowd that attacked the capital, while many sang’ Hang Pence ‘. If the president was a Democrat, we both know how you would react. But because he had ‘Republican’ behind his name, you defend him, “Sasse added, rebuking his critics.
Sasse is one of five Republican senators who voted last week to pass a motion by Sen. Rand Paul
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Sasse said Republicans who accepted Trump’s allegations of a stolen election deviate from their core conservative beliefs and insist on preserving the identity of the GOP as a party based on long-standing principles instead of mere marriage to the former president.
“Something has definitely changed in the last four years, but it’s not me,” he said. ‘Personality cults are not conservative. Conspiracy theories are not conservative. It is not conservative to lie that an election was stolen. Acting as if politics is a religion is not conservative. ‘
Sasse said most Nebraska voters agree with him and pointed to his 2020 re-election campaign, in which he won tens of thousands more votes than Trump in the state in November.
He noted that he won the Omaha area ‘conveniently’, while Trump lost it by ‘many’.
‘Nebraskans are not rage addicts, and that’s good news. “You are welcome to censor me again, but let us be clear why this is happening – it is because I have always believed that politics is not about the strange worship of one man,” he said.
The Nebraska Republican Party condemned Sasse in May 2016 for not supporting Trump enough.
Sasse won his Republican primary in the Senate in May 2020 by a large margin, setting a record for votes received by a candidate for a federal office in a Nebraska primary.
He carried all 93 provinces in the state during the general election.
“We will have to choose between conservatism and madness, between just trolling and convincing the rising generation of Americans again,” he said.
“This is what I am focused on and I sincerely hope that many of you will celebrate these great valuable causes for freedom,” he added. “I’m always going to work hard for Nebraskans and I’ll always tell you the truth.”