Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Paul Meijer (R-MI), each of whom voted to question President Trump final week for his “incitement of revolt,” on Sunday expressed their disappointment with their Republican colleagues who voted to problem the election outcomes hours after the lethal revolt on the Capitol that left 5 lifeless.
Final week, Mace and Meijer have been among the many handful of Home Republicans who voted to question Trump, which included the convention’s third-ranking member Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). A day after Cheney introduced her assist for impeaching Trump, the President’s allies within the Home Republican convention circulated a petition urging its third-ranking member to resign from her management place over her then-impending impeachment vote.
Showing on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Mace mentioned she discovered it “enormously disappointing” to witness greater than 130 of her Home Republican colleagues vote to object to President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory, particularly after lawmakers’ lives have been threatened through the lethal revolt on the Capitol earlier this month.
“I actually needed to stroll by means of a criminal offense scene the place that younger lady was shot and killed to get into the chamber to vote that night time to certify what was presupposed to be a ceremonial vote to certify the Electoral Faculty,” Mace mentioned. “And but, my colleagues continued to object and so they knew this was a failing movement. These objections weren’t going to work and so they have been unconstitutional. And so it’s enormously disappointing.”
After stressing that her vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment was to “level out the lies which have occurred,” Mace mentioned that she helps Cheney and hopes the Wyoming Republican holds onto her management place.
“There’s a lot division, not solely inside our celebration, however inside our nation proper now. And we’ve obtained to do a greater job,” Mace mentioned. “And I hope and I assist Liz Cheney. And I hope that she stays part of management. We want these voices proper now greater than ever.”
WATCH: Freshman Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) calls GOP objections to the electoral school “enormously disappointing.”@RepNancyMace: “I actually needed to stroll by means of a criminal offense scene the place that younger lady was shot and killed to get into the chamber to vote” to certify the election. pic.twitter.com/1UXDA9QVsm
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Meijer additionally recalled the harrowing experiencing of being on the Capitol amid the lethal revolt as he argued the significance of holding Trump accountable for inciting his supporters, throughout an interview on ABC Information on Sunday.
After describing the aftermath of the Capitol riots as having been “completely gut-wrenching” as a result of the impeachment of the President “was nothing that we ever hoped to do,” Meijer mentioned it was crucial as a way to “restore belief.”
“I feel this can be a time for reflection, nevertheless it’s additionally a time for accountability. And that’s one thing that I’m deeply dedicated to,” Meijer mentioned. “You recognize, I’m calling on my celebration to revive belief, to revive the belief of the voting public and to make sure that we by no means enable the actions that led as much as January sixth and what occurred on January sixth, we by no means enable that outburst of political violence to happen in our title once more.”
Requested why so few of his Republican colleagues agreed with him on impeachment, Meijer replied that he “can’t converse to what’s in anybody else’s coronary heart” however that he has considerations with these in his celebration who fed into “politics of deception.”
“It was particular person considerations about electoral integrity constructing to one thing that ended up supporting the President’s, , false concept that he had gained in a landslide. And that was what impressed his followers to come back out on January sixth,” Meijer mentioned. “That was the message that he was propagating. However we have to ensure that we transfer away from a politics of deception. We have to ensure that we now have leaders who’re telling of us who belief them what they should hear, not simply what they wish to hear.”
GOP Rep. Peter Meijer, certainly one of ten Home Republicans to vote for Pres. Trump’s impeachment, says latest days have been “completely intestine wrenching.”
“I am calling on my celebration to revive belief—to revive the belief of the voting public.” https://t.co/UKlf1qPaGX pic.twitter.com/NkN4hZ8om1
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 17, 2021
