February 1, 2021
Trump, the GOP, and the House
By Bill Hansmann
The next two years are going to be very interesting to observe with respect to the future of the Republican Party and Donald Trump's leadership role. Ten Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president in the second sham impeachment proceeding against him, despite the fact that he was about to leave office.
Not one Republican voted for impeachment the first go-round. This strongly suggests that the first vote was more about self-preservation than an actual endorsement of the president. It would not bode well for a congressman to vote against the leader of his own party, a leader who seemed likely at the time to win re-election in two years and whose endorsement might prove valuable to the congressman's own re-election bid. Any member of Congress hoping to remain in his seat would likely swallow his distaste for the president and vote not to impeach.
Granted, two of the ten were not seated members of the House at the time of the December 2019 vote; Donald Valadao of California, who originally won his seat in 2012, lost it in 2018 and then won it back this past fall, and Peter Meijer of Michigan, just elected in November of 2020, was a member of Congress for all of a week at the time of the impeachment vote. They both voted for the president's removal from office on what was their first opportunity to do so.
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