'Like The Betrayal Of Christ': GOP Reps Who Voted For Impeachment Will Be Punished By Their States

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 16 January 2021 11:00 PM
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'Like The Betrayal Of Christ': GOP Reps Who Voted For Impeachment Will Be Punished By Their States

Republicans who followed Democrats in voting to impeach President Donald Trump this week endured severe backlashes from Republican parties in their states.

While no Republicans voted to impeach Trump last year, 10 crossed the aisle in the Jan. 13 vote.

Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), Tom Rice (R-S.C.), David Valadao (R-Calif.), and Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) voted to impeach Trump.

Cheney was the most high-profile vote. She’s the No. 3 Republican in the House, and the offspring of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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The Wyoming Republican Party said its phone was sounding nonstop while its email inbox was packing up and its website was witnessing a deluge of traffic.

“The consensus is clear that those who are reaching out to the Party vehemently disagree with Representative Cheney’s decision and actions,” the party said in a statement.

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Wyoming voted for Trump in 2020. He earned 70 percent of the vote.

“Representative Cheney is in Washington, D.C. to represent Wyoming’s interest, not the interest of the beltway elites. President Trump did not invite anyone to riot. Read the transcript of what he said and watch the video,” the Wyoming GOP said, listing two examples of comments it received from voters.

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday denied calls to remove Cheney from her leadership position and Cheney’s spokesman sent an emailed statement of her saying, “I’m not going anywhere.”

“This is a vote of conscience. It’s one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the civil war, constitutional crisis. That’s what we need to be focused on.

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That’s where our efforts and attention need to be,” she added.

The Conservative Party of New York State said it is “very disappointed” with Katko’s support of impeachment. “We consider his action ill-informed. It will do nothing to end the national divide and will likely further aggravate it,” it said in a tweet.

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Katko said on the House floor this week that “the president’s role” in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol “is undeniable.”

“Both on social media on Jan. 6 and in his speech that day, he deliberately promoted baseless theories, creating a combustible environment of misinformation and division,” Katko said.

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South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick said Rice shouldn’t have voted for impeachment.

“Democrats have been looking for any excuse to get rid of President Trump ever since he set foot in the Oval Office,” McKissick said in a statement. “We completely disagree with this sham and to say I’m severely disappointed in Congressman Tom Rice would be an understatement.”

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