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.