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BumRushDaShow

(170,114 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 04:48 AM 14 hrs ago

Trump impeachment and RFK Jr. votes loom as Sen. Bill Cassidy fights for political survival

Source: NBC News

April 7, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT


COVINGTON, La. — Sen. Bill Cassidy knows Republican voters won’t forget his decision to convict President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 impeachment trial. But whether Cassidy is re-elected to another term in Louisiana this year may depend on whether they are willing to forgive him. During a recent campaign stop at an assisted living home in Louisiana’s Northshore, the first question from the crowd was whether Cassidy regretted his impeachment vote, as well as his vote to confirm Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Cassidy acknowledged “those will be two votes that people will remember me for.” But he also defended himself, saying he made his choices based on the best available information he had at the time. And he added that “no,” he doesn’t think Trump should “continue” to be impeached.

Asked later by NBC News whether he thinks his impeachment vote will be a liability in his GOP primary, Cassidy said that it “might be.” But he also sought to downplay his rift with Trump as a temporary disagreement, noting he has voted with the president 90% of the time.

“I tell people, ‘Hey, you’re married? Did ever your spouse do something that you didn’t really like?’ And you work through it,” he told NBC News in a wide-ranging interview that aired on "Meet the Press NOW." “I’m focused on the now and the future. If you want somebody delivering for our state, to make Louisiana a place where people move to set down roots, raise their children and grandchildren, I’m your guy.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-impeachment-rfk-jr-votes-bill-cassidy-political-survival-rcna266014



Interesting about the pushback regarding Brainworm host. Looks like a split forming between the MAHA MAGats and other MAGats.
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Trump impeachment and RFK Jr. votes loom as Sen. Bill Cassidy fights for political survival (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
What a fool. raccoon 14 hrs ago #1
trump has all the characteristics of an abusive husband. rampartd 14 hrs ago #2
That's what Republican integrity looks like. Buddyzbuddy 13 hrs ago #3
One of My Senators Roy Rolling 9 hrs ago #4

raccoon

(32,402 posts)
1. What a fool.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 05:18 AM
14 hrs ago
“I tell people, ‘Hey, you’re married? Did ever your spouse do something that you didn’t really like?’ And you work through it,”


As if threatening a country with total destruction is the equivalent of working through marital problems.

rampartd

(4,679 posts)
2. trump has all the characteristics of an abusive husband.
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 05:42 AM
14 hrs ago

trump has endorsed letlow to beat cassidy, and there is a third repub maga, fleming, in that primary.

Roy Rolling

(7,642 posts)
4. One of My Senators
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:09 AM
9 hrs ago

98% useless, his vote to impeach L’Orange Jello is the only thing to his credit.

Since then, he’s been groveling to his GOP captors begging for forgiveness and running TV commercials with him and the Orange problem. Pitiful.

This GOP of 2026 is the most disgraceful and unrepresentative of reasonable constituents in history. My representatives are the most disgraceful of the cult—Scalise, Kennedy, Cassidy, and Landry.

Louisiana will have a special place in the history books under enablers, part of the most disgraceful generation.

Not me. He ha. I voted for Obama, Biden, Harris, and anybody not associated with these local a**holes.

They have established a brand, they just haven’t a clue what it is.

Errata: We are home to James Carville and Jim Miller, so the resistance intelligencia is strong.

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