The North Carolina Republican Party will reportedly vote Monday to decide whether Sen. Richard Burr
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According to The Associated Press, the chapter said the central committee will meet Monday night to hold the vote.
The disapproval comes after the group condemned Burr after he joined six other Republicans who voted Saturday to condemn Trump on charges of instigating the January 6 uprising at the Capitol.
Trump was acquitted after the upper house voted to convict him 57-43. At least two-thirds of the chamber, or 67 senators, would have to vote conviction to find Trump guilty of the charges.
North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley slammed Burr within hours of Saturday’s vote.
“North Carolina Republicans have sent Senator Burr to the United States Senate to uphold the Constitution, and his vote today to condemn him in a trial he has declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing,” Whatley said.
Burr’s vote to condemn was somewhat surprising given that he had previously voted the trial unconstitutional.
Burr, who is retiring instead of seeking a fourth term in 2022, said in a statement Saturday that when the impeachment began, he “believed it was unconstitutional to impeach a president who was no longer. was in office “. He also said at the time that he still believes that “that should be the case.”
However, the Republican senator added in the statement that it “is compelling evidence that President Trump is guilty of instigating an uprising against an equal branch of the government and that the charge is rising to the level of high crimes and felonies.”
“I have listened to the arguments of both parties and considered the facts. The facts are clear,” he said.
The president promoted baseless conspiracy theories to question the integrity of free and fair elections because he did not like the results. When Congress met to confirm the election results, the president instructed his supporters to go to the Capitol to to disrupt legal elections, procedure required by constitution, ”he continued.
“When the crowd turned violent, the president used his office to stir up the situation first, rather than calling for an immediate end to the attack,” he also said.
Burr and the other Republicans who voted to condemn the former president have faced swift backlash from their home state and other party members in Congress.
The Louisiana Republican Party voted Sen. Bill Cassidy
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