Impeachment Fallout At Home And Abroad: GOP Fractured, America 'Tarnished'
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
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| 0:00.0 | There's a clip going around this week you might have seen it from a news report on the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh KDK |
| 0:07.0 | Some of his fellow Pennsylvania Republicans are not happy with Senator Pat Toomey. |
| 0:12.0 | That station ran a story about local reaction to Republican Senator Pat Toomey voting to convict former President Trump in last week's impeachment trial. |
| 0:21.5 | Toomey was just one of seven Republicans to do so. |
| 0:24.9 | And here's what a local county Republican chair said about that. |
| 0:29.1 | We did not send him there to vote as conscience. |
| 0:32.1 | We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. |
| 0:39.1 | We sent him there to represent us. |
| 0:41.1 | We did not send him there to do the right thing. |
| 0:45.1 | That's what you just heard from Republican Dave Ball of Washington County. |
| 0:48.1 | And while the naked politics of that statement are why the clip got a lot of play, |
| 0:52.1 | something else got lost in the conversation. |
| 0:55.1 | Dave Ball chairs the Washington County Republican Party that voted to censure Toomey. |
| 1:00.1 | The reason Dave Ball was in that news report in the first place was that he represents a growing trend among state and local Republicans |
| 1:08.1 | who have voted to censure members of their own party for turning against Donald Trump. |
| 1:13.1 | And not just in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:15.1 | Three of the leading Republicans in the state were targeted for censures by their own party. |
| 1:21.1 | Arizona Republicans voted to censure former Senator Jeff Flake and the widow of Senator John McCain, Cindy McCain, |
| 1:28.1 | both that supported in peaching Trump. |
| 1:30.1 | The GOP also censured the governor, Doug Ducey, saying his pandemic restrictions amounted to quote dictatorial powers. |
| 1:38.1 | The censures are assigned to the party's embrace of Trump. |
| 1:41.1 | A censure is just a symbolic vote of disapproval. |
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