GOP largely sides against holding Trump impeachment trial
By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.
While the Republicans did not succeed in ending the trial before it began, the test vote made clear that Trump still has enormous sway over his party as he becomes the first former president to be tried for impeachment. Many Republicans have criticized Trump’s role in the attack before which he told his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat but most of them have rushed to defend him in the trial.
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“Our country is polarized right now. It’s kind of shirts and skins, isn’t it? That makes it more difficult to find that common ground because elected officials aren’t rewarded for that,” he said at a press conference announcing he would leave the Senate at the end of 2022.
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“What they’re rewarded for is throwing out the red meat on a talk show. That isn’t conducive to solving the serious problems we face as a country,” said Portman, a veteran of the Bush White House whose pro-trade, pro-business brand of Republicanism sometimes conflicted with Trump’s “America First” nationalism.
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