Republican Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said on Saturday that US President Donald Trump "committed impeachable offenses" in his efforts to throw out the results of the 2020 presidential election but stopped short of saying whether he would support impeachment procedures against Trump. "I do think t...
Cheney was among only 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump after the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol. Last week, she told reporters she hadn't invited the former president to the party's issues conference, held outside of Orlando this year. She has urged Republicans to...
trump—in contrast to fellow louisiana republican john kennedy , the state’s “voice of reason” in the senate. “he does not represent the people of this state,” the resolution read, “or the republican party.” the notion that a senator who voted with trump 90% of the time doesn...
Indeed, the blade has cut the other way, with the immediate political consequences looming largest not for the 147 Republicans in Congress who backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, but for the 17 who voted either to impeach or convict him; many of them are now facing c...
US Senator: Mickey Mouse. I literally wrote in Mickey Mouse because the GOPe endorsed and orchestrated puppet strings candidate whose name appears on the ballot spent time and money to knock off the ballot several other candidates who would have competed with him in this primary race. What a ...
voted toimpeachTrump over allegations that he had withheld aid toUkrainein order to pressure thecountryinto opening a corruption investigation intoJoe Biden, a politicalrival. The proceedings then shifted to the Republican-controlled Senate, and in February 2020 Scott voted to acquit Trump; the ...
In January 2023 Republicans, who had held on to a narrow majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections, got to choose the speaker of the House. Despite Kevin McCarthy’s being the ranking leader, 18 members of the Freedom Caucus voted against him in the first round...
several prominent Republicans—includingLiz Cheneyin the House andSusan CollinsandBen Sassein the Senate—voted to convict Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Trump was ultimatelyacquittedin the Senate. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, it seemed that Trump’s political ...
The prolonged agony of the Civil War weakened Lincoln’s prospects for reelection in 1864. To broaden his support, he chose as his vice presidential candidateAndrew Johnson, a pro-Union Democratic senator from Tennessee, and the Lincoln-Johnson ticket subsequently won a landslide victory over Democr...
abuse of power, for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden while withholding US security assistance and a coveted White House meeting, and obstructing Congress in its investigation. The House voted to impeach the President and the Senate voted to acquit him largely on party...