May 20, 2021 Tatjana Muskiet
The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has voted, with Republican support, for a commission to investigate the Capitol riot. Thirty-five Republicans defied their party leaders and former President Donald Trump in siding with Democrats by 252-175 to establish the inquiry. Mr Trump had urged Republicans to vote against the “Democrat trap”. The bill looks unlikely to pass the upper chamber. Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell called it “slanted”. The inquiry would be modelled on the commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. It would establish a 10-member body, evenly split between the two main parties, that would make recommendations by the end of the year on how to prevent any repeat of the Capitol invasion.(BBC)…[+]
Republicans can’t quit Trump, despite his election rhetoric
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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – With fidelity to former president Donald Trump all but solidified, America’s Republican Party is tilting towards an outright embrace of an unsettling falsehood: that Democrats stole the 2020 election.
Republican leaders are quick to assert that Joe Biden is the duly elected president, and that their main goal now is to propose bold political ideas that will help them win back control of the Senate and House of Representatives next year.
But in the halls of Congress, talk keeps circling back to Trump, and whether allegiance to the former president above all else is the smart play for Republicans despite his persistent deceit about last November’s vote.
May 20, 2021
Michael Mathes
WASHINGTON (AFP) – With fidelity to former United States (US) president Donald Trump all but solidified, Americaâs Republican Party is tilting towards an outright embrace of an unsettling falsehood: that Democrats stole the 2020 election.
Republican leaders are quick to assert that Joe Biden is the duly elected president, and that their main goal now is to propose bold political ideas that will help them win back control of the Senate and House of Representatives next year.
But in the halls of Congress, talk keeps circling back to Trump, and whether allegiance to the former president above all else is the smart play for Republicans despite his persistent deceit about last Novemberâs vote.