The Kentucky Republican told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he believes one-third of the party will leave if Trump's conviction comes to fruition. Paul then added that he believes the second impeachment is "purely a partisan thing."
"I didn’t agree with the fight that happened last week. I voted against overturning the election," Paul stated Friday night. "But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. If Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party. A third of the Republicans will leave the party."
Trump was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House on Wednesday, after being charged with incitement of insurrection following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.
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In December of 2019 the president was impeached on two Ukraine-related articles of impeachment in the House but was finally acquitted by the Senate early last year. At the time, Mitt Romney of Utah was the sole Republican senator to vote in favor of one of the articles of impeachment against Trump, becoming the first senator ever to vote for the impeachment of a president from the same party.
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Ten House Republicans all hopped on board to vote for Trump's impeachment, making him the first U.S. president in history to be impeached twice.
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Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Jaime Herrera Beutler Washington, John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Peter Meijer of Michigan, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Tom Rice of South Carolina, Fred Upton of Michigan and David Valadao of California voted to impeach.
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The choice to split from the party's majority comes with a risk that those members could face political blowback for their votes and lose support altogether from their state's Republican Party come the next election.
Cheney, the No. 3 in the House Republican leadership as the GOP conference chair, is getting flak from the Wyoming Republican Party and her congressional colleagues.
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Members of the House Freedom Caucus circulated a petition Wednesday to force a vote on a resolution calling on Cheney to resign from her post. The resolution states Cheney's position "has brought the Conference into disrepute and produced discord."
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Convicting Trump in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote, or alternatively, 67 senators. The Senate will be split 50-50 with Democrats and the two independents who caucus with them having a tie-breaker in President-elect Kamala Harris.
Trump will leave office on Jan. 20, and will be succeeded by President-elect Joe Biden. The president has repeatedly said he will not be attending the inauguration, and is expected to leave Washington D.C. before the event begins.
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