'I'm not afraid of clowns': Republican defends vote to impeach Trump
Tom Rice of South Carolina says of his vote to impeach ‘I have a duty to uphold the constitution’ as he faces tough primary
Martin Pengelly and agencies
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Sat 11 Jun 2022 08.33 EDT
One of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump over the deadly Capitol attack insisted the former president should be consigned to the political past, even as Trump attracted headlines with a Senate race endorsement, in his continued attempt to control the GOP.
“Bring on the circus,” Tom Rice of South Carolina told the New York Times. “You know, some people are afraid of clowns. I’m not afraid of clowns.
“He’s the past. I hope he doesn’t run again. And I think if he does run again, he hurts the Republican party. We desperately need somebody who’s going to bring people together. And he is not that guy.”
Trump this week called Rice a “backstabbing Rino” – an acronym for “Republican in Name Only” – and said: “He lifted up his hand and that was the end of his political career – or we hope it was.”
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/11/tom-rice-republican-impeach-trump-vote
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