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