to impeach trump who is going to lose his seat. there are two republicans in washington state, i can just show you this, who voted to impeach trump. top two primary in washington state, both parties on the same ballot, top two advance to the next election. third district, a democrat has won, you got jamie herrera butler, she leads the trump-backed candidate. and newhouse, a lot of votes still to come. that s the republican who voted to impeach trump. you may in these top two primaries in washington see a pair of republicans advance to the general despite voting to impeach trump. the finish line is near for today. hopefully you ll get some rest, my friend. after speaker pelosi came and went, what kind of damage is she
but it is not like you saw a battalion, a storm here in south carolina to defend he calls himself a christian conservative who has served in congress for more than a decade now. there was no like kevin mccarthy or stefanik were not here. vormer vice president mike pence was not here. i asked him specifically on monday how he felt about essentially being the lone fighter here to fend this seat for himself. he told me, quote, they have the make their own choices. i am not going to judge. i know i made the right decision, i know i made the decision to preserve our freedom and prosperity by defending our constitution. i said tom rice was the first of those impeachment republicans to put his name on the. about. there are four others we are looking a in the the next two months. you have jamie herrera butler and dan new house in washington state. peter myer in washington, and in the middle of august, liz cheney puts her name on the ballot. the one other race here of course was nancy mace. s
but mr. mccarthy is so weak. you see it in his daily interaction on the floor. i have experienced myself his extraordinary weakness. as you said, he s trying to please everybody. he s pleasing nobody. he stands for nothing. i don t think he will survive a speakership vote. chuck rosenberg, he stood for something very specific on those calls, on the 10th and the 11th, and what he stood for was important enough that congresswoman, i think, jamie herrera butler, introduced it into the impeachment trial and he stood for this very specific and important knowledge of a phone call that trump had while the violence was going on in which trump said to kevin, well, kevin, these people just care more than you do about the fact that the election was stolen from me. we learned from these tapes that whatever kevin mccarthy knew, he knew it was putting donald trump on a path to one resignation, and two, potentially being pardoned by mike pence who could
i think republicans are super focused just on their own election. i don t know that they have the fortitude nor the desire to look towards what is happening in the institution ten years from now, 12 years from now. so much of the civility and the reverent institution that i spent decades covering is lost. honestly, i think you have a new generation of politicians. there is just a flap right now on the house floor between marjorie taylor green and liz cheney, marjorie taylor green calling cheney a joke. that kind of interaction you couldn t fathom that happening ten years ago. it s really gotten to a real low at this point. i also just want the note there is a lot of news coming in here, jamie herrera butler has also now voted in support of going forward with you know, turning over bannon to the contempt resolution. not necessarily surprising, another republican moderate who has had some issues with how