The Republican Party in Nebraska officially “reprimanded” Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) On Saturday for his vote to impute former President Trump earlier this year, although he stopped at official censorship, CNN reports.
Why does it matter: Sasse is the latest in a list of Republicans to face some sort of punishment from their state party apparatus after voting for the former president’s indictment. The senator responded to the statement on Saturday, according to the Omaha World-Herald, saying that “most Nebrascans don’t think politics should be about strangely worshiping a guy.”
Bottom line: “Senator Sasse’s condemnation of President Trump and his support for the removal of President Trump have been used liberally several times by Democrats as justification for a truncated removal process that denied the president the appropriate process,” the resolution said, according to CNN.
- The party has expressed “deep disappointment and sadness over Senator Ben Sasse’s service and calls for an immediate readjustment to represent the people of Nebraska in Washington and not Washington for the people of Nebraska.”
Sasse was reprimanded for the first time by the party in 2016, but was re-elected in the fall of 63% of the vote, which is about 5 points more than Trump won in Nebraska.
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