On Sunday, ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos served up a heavy dose of “blue wave” rhetoric, featuring a segment dedicated to the purported Democratic surge, an interview with a Democratic Senator from a red state, and a Republican strategist who had already decided that the GOP would be losing the House in 2018 “by 40 or 50 seats.”
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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., during a Congressional Oversight Commission hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
After weeks of internal debate, Pennsylvania’s Republican Party has officially voted not to censure GOP U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey for his decision to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
Instead, the party opted to rebuke the two-term conservative senator, according to members who were involved in the process a symbolic gesture that has little meaningful difference from a censure and little impact, especially given that Toomey is not running for reelection in 2022.