Sasse’s message to Nebraska GOP while facing censorship: ‘Politics is not about the strange worship of one dude’

Sasse’s message to Nebraska GOP while facing censorship: ‘Politics is not about the strange worship of one dude’

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In a video addressed to members of the Nebraska GOP Central Committee, Sasse urged the party to accept critics of the former president and remain true to conservatism as the party’s future.

“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. One guy,” Sasse said.

“January 6 is going to leave a scar,” Sasse said, referring to the date of the violent uprising at the US Capitol, where rioters were encouraged by Trump to reverse the outcome of the election. “For 220 years, our peaceful transfer of power has been one of the most beautiful things to America. But what Americans saw three weeks ago was an ugly, outrageous violent crowd disrupting a constitutional convention of Congress to end that peaceful transfer of power. may confirm. “

CNN reached out to the Nebraska GOP for comment.

The resolution, posted by the News Channel Nebraska Central, states that Sasse will impose ‘guarantee and the penalty of CENSURE’ which the party must impose on 13 February. The state party condemned Sasse in 2016 for not supporting Trump adequately, according to the senator’s office.

Taylor Sliva, spokeswoman for the Sasse campaign, said Thursday night that the committee did not share the resolution with them, but that they saw it on the News Channel Nebraska Central.

“You’re welcome to censor me again, but let’s be clear why this is happening: it’s because I still believe – as in the past – that politics is not about the strange worship of one man,” Sasse said. video. “The party can purify Trump skeptics, but I want to convince you that this ‘civilian cancer’ is not only for the country, it is also terrible for our party.”

Sasse was an outspoken critic of the former president’s claims that he doubted the truth of the election results. In December, Sasse wrote on Facebook that he had asked his Republican colleagues to object to the certification process of the Electoral College and the then election of President Joe Biden, adding that the discussion of objections to the process was a ‘dangerous one’. ‘is. foefie. ‘

“The president and his allies are playing with fire. They have asked – first the courts, then the state legislators, now Congress – to block the results of a presidential election,” Sasse said at the time. “They have unsuccessfully asked judges and called on federal officials to invalidate millions and millions of votes. If you make big demands, you must have the evidence. But the president does not, and neither do the institutional arsonists of the “Congress will not oppose the Electoral College.”

Sasse’s clash between the state comes as the national Republican Party faces its own internal conflict. Rep. Wyoming Liz Cheney, a lifelong ideological conservative, on Wednesday defended a challenge to her leadership post from members of her own party after she voted to accuse Trump.
At the same time, Georgia’s representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conspiracy theorist who believes the GOP’s problem is that it lost the presidential election too gracefully, got a pass from Republican colleagues, even though he had previously promoted a string of violent views and conspiracy theories. The full Democratic House voted Thursday to strip Greene of her committee allocations.

CNN’s Michael Warren, Stephen Collinson, Morgan Rimmer and Rachel Janfaza contributed to this report.

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