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First House GOP lawmakers announce support for Trump impeachment

2021-01-12 | 🔗
FOX News senior political analyst Brit Hume tells 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Trump is 'bad news politically' for GOP
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To be a man, they are like dad to you today of the third Republican in the House of Representatives. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said she would gladly vote to impeach the president and his final week in office. Fox news is reporting Mitch. Mcconnell things impeachable will help the Republican Party get rid of Donald Trump and the stain he is left on the party. This is not whatever else. It is out an orderly and peaceful transition of power of teaching a man in his final week in office, so whats, the point theres got to be Brit. Hume, Fox NEWS, senior political analyst joins us great to see you theres got to be a reason. It doesnt make obvious sense and its not orderly and peaceful. Where are they doing? It? Trump is obviously this point radioactive, not just among liberals and Democrats where he has always been loathed now, to a great extent among everyday republicans. I dont think theres any doubt
he retains his hardest of hard core base. They will be with him forever im sure, but the rest of the Republican Party. They are looking at this and saying what we dont want. Is this guy hanging around in two or four years, two years in the congressional elections and worst of all running for president again after that, because he will pull off a segment of the republican vote, make it unavailable to ordinary Republicans, regular Republicans and be a on them thats, the political calculation they are making. The other thing is, they are furious with him. They believe in their bones that he cost them. The two special elections in the state of Georgia, which they manifested should not have lost. Both candidates were ahead and didnt quite get enough to avoid a runoff, and then they lost in the runoff. A lot of Republicans stayed home offended by Trump thats, the reasoning anyway, so thats. The reason Republicans are turning away from him. They think is bad news politically.
I certainly understand why they are mad at him. A lot of people who voted for him are mad at him for sure that impeaching him is a separate question. If you want to make certain that a lot of your voters think that youre reading off someone elses script, if you want to make trump last even longer in the minds of the public, you would impeach him wouldnt, you wouldnt it be better to ignore him, those of a competing political calculations Tucker. I dont really think. I think it would be pretty hard to revive his fortunes politically at this time, even by being what a lot of it will consider, keep in mind that the overriding purpose of the whole impeachment power written into the constitution is to get out of office in defending president who has done something truly truly reprehensible. Somebody said the other day on Twitter that they had this way or that way of doing it.
I have a plan get rid of him. In twelve days, hes gone hes finished hes, a most invisible now hes, a most invisible, now hes being chastised hes a dead duck politically. The purpose it a bit, I think, is a bit overkill. At this stage, you can make an argument that he committed an impeachable offense all of that stuff. He said for weeks on end after the election that he won in a landslide, and that was all stolen from him that MIKE Pence have the authority which he most certainly did not reversing the results of the last minute last week, that was utter balderdash and he fed it into the veins of his supporters, and one could make a pretty good case that thats part of what got them into a fever that led to last weeks. Events right, youve just got to wonder if its not just better, to make the case. No one ever wants to make the case. They just want to vote for.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-13.