It’s perplexing that many in the GOP have hitched their wagon to an anchor that’s already lying on the bottom of the sea, but Republicans have remained steadfast behind one man as he destroys their party: Donald J. Trump. And even though the twice-impeached one-term president cost Republicans the House, Senate, and the presidency, they remain in his corner. Usually, the Republicans that call out Trump over his unacceptable behavior are no longer in office, but that’s not the case with Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.
In an interview with CNBC, Toomey blasted the former president for his “unacceptable behavior” following the 2020 election, and the Pennsylvania Republican doesn’t want Trump to become the party’s 2024 nominee.
“Actually, I’m a conservative Republican by any objective measure, by looking at the voting record, by looking at my views compared to that of a traditional conservative Republican,” Toomey said. “It is President Trump who departed from Republican orthodoxy and conservative orthodoxy in a variety of ways. I stuck to the conservative views that I’ve had for a long time. He had a different point of view on matters such as trade and sometimes immigration and other things. So it’s funny to me to hear myself characterized differently; I haven’t changed.”
“I think that the future of our party is to be a party of ideas and not to be a party about any one individual, and I think we will learn a lot from the next set of primaries,” he continued. “I think after what happened post-2020 election, I think the president’s behavior was completely unacceptable, so I don’t think he should be the nominee to lead the party in 2024.”
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Sen. Toomey voted to convict the former president in the impeachment trial over his role in inciting the deadly January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters, fueled by Trump’s big lie of massive voter fraud that didn’t take place. And still to this day, Trump unleashes statements and gives interviews to falsely claim that the election was “stolen.”
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