A Senate Republican aide says he thinks there were about 20, give or take, Rs open to conviction bef

[MelissaB]

A Senate Republican aide tells me he thinks there were about 20, give or take, Republicans who were *open* to a conviction

Before our story on McConnell

Link to tweet

[leftieNanner]

1. Well this is good news

But he won't do a Nixon and resign, even if Mitch tells him he's got the votes in the Senate.

[Mike 03]

2. I'm starting to believe this is possible.

First there was the George Conway tweet.

Secondly, there are some GOP senators who have been hiding in plain sight who I don't believe like Trump one bit, but because they don't speak a lot or get mentioned in headlines, nobody pays much attention to them.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Me too!! It you can bet turtle has an agenda..votes for fewer charges against others

Like hawley and cruz...there’s a plan

[coti]

3. Yeah, they want to vote to ban him from running again, so he can't go (I)ndependent

and split the party.

[Mike 03]

4. Yes, and this too!

Big factor.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Opportunity knocks, Pubbies!

[coti]

6. ...but once.

Last chance!

[spanone]

8. I'll drive the bus!!!!

[frazzled]

9. I bet what McConnell is hoping for is

that the threat of certain conviction will make Trump resign, like Nixon did. Ain’t gonna ever happen with this one. We’ll have to have a trial and see if there really are 20.

Fingers crossed!

[uponit7771]

13. +1, there aren't even 10 senators they would've said something by now. There's no need to be quiet

... about Trump who's wounded but not enough for the kGOP to remove him.

Trump has a 78% approval among MAGA Minions, that's not enough for them to give up on him right now

[frazzled]

15. Follow the money

It’s all dried up. Even Hallmark has pulled funding. That, my friend, counts more than anything to these people.

[Chicago1980]

14. He may resign...

But at the very last minute so Pence can still pardon him.

Until then, hell and havoc.

[uponit7771]

10. Nah, if there was that many at least 10 of them who don't have to run in in the next 4 years wouldve

... said something.

We have relative silence other than "reports" of fairly quite decent

[zeekmanzero]

17. Republican Senator Running in Next Four Years

2022

Blunt, Roy (R-MO)
Boozman, John (R-AR)
Burr, Richard (R-NC)
Crapo, Mike (R-ID)
Grassley, Chuck (R-IA)
Hoeven, John (R-ND)
Johnson, Ron (R-WI)
Kennedy, John (R-LA)
Lankford, James (R-OK)
Lee, Mike (R-UT)
Loeffler, Kelly (R-GA)
Moran, Jerry (R-KS)
Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK)
Paul, Rand (R-KY)
Portman, Rob (R-OH)
Rubio, Marco (R-FL)
Scott, Tim (R-SC)
Shelby, Richard C. (R-AL)
Thune, John (R-SD)
Toomey, Patrick J. (R-PA)
Young, Todd (R-IN)


2024

Barrasso, John (R-WY)
Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN)
Braun, Mike (R-IN)
Cramer, Kevin (R-ND)
Cruz, Ted (R-TX)
Fischer, Deb (R-NE)
Hawley, Josh (R-MO)
Romney, Mitt (R-UT)
Scott, Rick (R-FL)
Wicker, Roger F. (R-MS)

[uponit7771]

18. Yep, there's around 20 of the left who don't have to run in the next 4 years who are silent. If they

... were making noise then I'd say Moscow Mitch has the votes.

Right now Moscow Mitch doesn't want to share the kGOP with Putin's Whore and the kGOP is bleeding money he's not wanting to keep that up either.

This isn't cause he has the votes

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Toomey is retiring at the end of his term in 2022

and we're hoping we can get THE Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in!

Link to tweet

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John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
·
Jan 12, 2021
Replying to @JohnFetterman
Not ready quite ready to nominate Liz Cheney for Rotarian of the Month just yet

John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
Let’s hold off on that ticker tape parade for a Republican willing to vote for impeachment only *after* a mob bludgeoned a police officer to death with a flagpole.
8:00 PM · Jan 12, 2021 from Braddock, PA

ETA - Loeffler (GA) lost so you can take her off that list.

[Thekaspervote]

11. Putting an end to trump world in politics would also put end to a senate run by vannnka

[zeekmanzero]

12. Any guess who these Republican Senators might be?

[joshcryer]

16. He's done.

[Arazi]

20. Dammit, I'm infuriated at the cynicism. This could have been done in January