Sasse’s message to Nebraska GOP as he faces censorship: ‘Politics is not about a guy’s weird worship’

In a video addressing members of the Central Committee of the State of the Republican Party of Nebraska, Sasse urged the party to accept criticism of the former president and to remain true to conservatism as the party’s future.

“Let’s be clear: the anger in this state party was never about me violating principles or abandoning conservative politics – I am one of the most conservative voters in the Senate – anger was always just about not bending my knee to a guy,” said Sasse.

“January 6 will leave a scar,” said Sasse, referring to the date of the violent insurrection in the United States Capitol, where protesters encouraged by Trump sought to overturn the election results. “For 220 years, one of the most beautiful things about America has been our peaceful transfer of power. But what Americans saw three weeks ago was the ugly and shameful violence of a mob to interrupt a constitutionally ordered Congress meeting to affirm that transfer. peaceful power. “

CNN contacted the Nebraska GOP for comment.

The resolution, published by the News Channel Nebraska Central, considers that Sasse “guarantees and should incur the penalty of CENSORSHIP” to be imposed by the party on February 13. The state party censored Sasse in 2016 for not supporting Trump sufficiently, according to the office senator.

Taylor Sliva, a spokesman for the Sasse campaign, said late on Thursday that the committee did not share the resolution with them, but that they saw it on the Nebraska Central News Channel.

“You can blame me again, but let’s be clear about why this is happening: it’s because I still believe – as you used to – that politics is not about a guy’s weird worship,” said Sasse in the video. “The party could purge Trump’s skeptics, but I would like to convince them that this is not only ‘civic cancer’ for the nation, but also terrible for our party.”

Sasse has vehemently criticized the former president’s claims, casting doubt on the veracity of the election results. In December, Sasse wrote on Facebook that he had been urging his Republican colleagues to “reject” objections to the Electoral College certification process and the victory of then President-elect Joe Biden, adding that talking about challenging the process is “a dangerous ploy.”

“The president and his allies are playing with fire. They have been asking – first to the courts, then to state legislatures, now to Congress – to overturn the results of a presidential election,” said Sasse at the time. “They summoned unsuccessful judges and are now summoning federal office holders to invalidate millions and millions of votes. If you make big claims, you better have the evidence. But the president has neither the institutional arson members of Congress who will oppose to the vote of the Electoral College. “

Sasse’s intra-state confrontation occurs as the national Republican Party faces its own internal conflicts. On Wednesday, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a longtime ideological conservative, fought a challenge to her leadership position as members of her own party after voting for Trump’s impeachment.
At the same time, Georgia’s MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conspiracy theorist who thinks that the problem with the Republican Party is that she lost the presidential election very elegantly, got a pass from her Republican colleagues despite previously promoting a series of violent and Conspiracy theories. The House, entirely led by Democrats, voted to withdraw Greene from his committee duties on Thursday.

CNN’s Michael Warren, Stephen Collinson, Morgan Rimmer and Rachel Janfaza contributed to this report.

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