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Yesterday, we highlighted how Democrats were responding to last week’s deadly Capitol riots (Hint: it starts with the letter ‘I’). So, how are Republicans grappling with the crisis?
By Melanie Arter | January 7, 2021 | 10:25am EST
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) accused President Donald Trump of inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, adding that the president’s response to the violence was “completely intolerable and insufficient.”
“We just had a violent mob assault the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent us from carrying out our constitutional duty, and there is no question that the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame, and this is what America is not,” Cheney said in an interview with Fox News’s “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
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Republicans are clashing fiercely with each other over the challenge to Biden’s Electoral College win.
Sen. Ted Cruz is among those who in recent days have positioned themselves firmly in the Republican party’s pro-Trump wing, even as the president mulls whether to run again in 2024. | AP Photo/Brynn Anderson
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Senate Republicans are in open war against each other as Donald Trump’s presidency comes to a close, with his baseless claims of widespread election fraud animating what will be the defining schism of the Trump era. As the new Congress was sworn in Sunday, the Republican Party splintered badly as at least 12 senators planned to join about 140 House members to contest Joe Biden’s election win. The tensions are so high that individual GOP senators are now directly battling, with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) accusing some Republicans of undermining the right to participate in direct elections and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) decrying Toomey’s
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