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PUNCHBOWL AM Newsletter: 10-20 House Republicans will vote for Impeachment
House Republicans are bracing for between ten and 20 of their GOP colleagues to vote to impeach Donald Trump -- a hugely embarrassing rebuke for the president at the end of his tumultuous term.
This is only a fraction of the GOP conference, but a major rejection of the outgoing president’s behavior since the election, especially his role in last week’s deadly attack on the Capitol. The vote is “super fluid,” a Republican insider told us. The leadership isn’t keeping a formal whip count, but whatever the number is, it’s infinitely greater than the zero Republicans that voted for Trump’s impeachment in 2019, and it demonstrates the serious rift inside the party.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is personally opposed to impeachment and floated censure as a fall-back option Monday that could garner bipartisan support, but Democrats aren’t buying it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told her Democratic colleagues that censure wouldn’t fly. House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming told Republicans she sees this as a vote of conscience -- typically vernacular reserved for leaders when they’re not going to be pressuring their rank and file to vote one way or another. Cheney has not publicly announced how she will vote.
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On Capitol Hill, the GOP divisions are especially acute. On Monday, during a party call, two freshmen lawmakers exchanged words. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said that the Capitol riot was, in part, a result of Capitol Police who were a part of the mob. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said she was angry at the lawmakers who led Congress to this point, and added that she was “disappointed [the party is] being led by QAnon conspiracy theorists.” Boebert has expressed belief in QAnon.
This is only a fraction of the GOP conference, but a major rejection of the outgoing president’s behavior since the election, especially his role in last week’s deadly attack on the Capitol. The vote is “super fluid,” a Republican insider told us. The leadership isn’t keeping a formal whip count, but whatever the number is, it’s infinitely greater than the zero Republicans that voted for Trump’s impeachment in 2019, and it demonstrates the serious rift inside the party.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is personally opposed to impeachment and floated censure as a fall-back option Monday that could garner bipartisan support, but Democrats aren’t buying it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told her Democratic colleagues that censure wouldn’t fly. House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming told Republicans she sees this as a vote of conscience -- typically vernacular reserved for leaders when they’re not going to be pressuring their rank and file to vote one way or another. Cheney has not publicly announced how she will vote.
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On Capitol Hill, the GOP divisions are especially acute. On Monday, during a party call, two freshmen lawmakers exchanged words. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said that the Capitol riot was, in part, a result of Capitol Police who were a part of the mob. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said she was angry at the lawmakers who led Congress to this point, and added that she was “disappointed [the party is] being led by QAnon conspiracy theorists.” Boebert has expressed belief in QAnon.