Vulnerable Dems Threaten to Abandon Ship if Socialist Bernie is Nominee

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Vulnerable Dems Threaten to Abandon Ship if Socialist Bernie is Nominee

‘Sanders is about the worst candidate we can put up…’

Vulnerable Democrats Worried a Sanders Nomination Would 'Put House Majority at Risk'
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) After Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, vulnerable congressional Democrats raised concerns that Sanders’s extreme proposals could hurt their reelection efforts if he becomes the Democratic nominee.

Freshman Rep. Anthony Brindisi, D-N.Y., said he won’t support Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., if either candidate becomes the nominee.

Brindisi, who co-chairs the centrist Blue Dog caucus, said it would be “exceedingly difficult” to convince the moderate voters he represents that Sanders is a good choice.

“I don’t think the people that I represent are looking for a president who supports abolishing private health insurance companies, and I don’t either,” he told The Post-Standard.

“I’m not endorsing Warren or Sanders,” he added. “I respect them, but the policies that they’re running on don’t necessarily align with my beliefs and the beliefs of many of the people I represent.”

Another centrist Democrat, freshman Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., agreed with Brindisi’s characterization. He said Sanders would have a difficult time winning swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan, according to The Hill.

On top of the chaos and political infighting that resulted from the Iowa Democratic Caucus’s technology failures last week, Democrats also expressed alarm with the surprisingly low turnout that the lackluster field of candidates had inspired.

Some are worried about more than the presidential election.

Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., warned that Sanders’s nomination could affect Congress in the general election if left-leaning moderates decide to stay home.

“Sanders is about the worst candidate we can put up,” Peters told The Hill. “He not only won’t likely win the presidency—he puts the House majority at risk.”

Regardless, Peters said he would help his party to circle the wagons behind their eventual candidate.

“I will support Bernie Sanders if he is nominated against Donald Trump,” he said. “I will do so enthusiastically—but I don’t think … putting a socialist on the ballot is a good strategy to defeat Donald Trump.”

As of right now, Brindisi is the only vulnerable Democrat vowing not to support Sanders if he wins the nomination.

Many of the other wary congressional Democrats admitted that if it comes down to it, they’ll stick with the party’s candidate—regardless of who it may be—over the alternative.

“I am behind whoever wins the nomination,” said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. “I don’t like some of their policies, but, you know…”

GOP Members Boycott Schiff’s Hearing for Failure to Investigate FISA Abuses

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‘Until the Committee prioritizes oversight activities related to urgent and critical concerns, Republican Members cannot support distractions from our core responsibilities…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Following months in which House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., prioritized impeachment over the committee’s duties overseeing the intelligence community, ranking minority member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and other GOP representatives boycotted a hearing Wednesday that they dismissed as a publicity stunt.

“Under your chairmanship, the House Intelligence Committee has strayed far from its mandate of overseeing the Intelligence Community,” wrote Nunes and Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, who serves as the ranking Republican for the Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advance Research.

“In fact, we have gone months at a time in which we’ve hardly held any oversight-related briefings or hearings at all,” they said.

Seven other GOP committee members cosigned the letter, including high-profile members Will Hurd and John Ratcliffe, both of Texas, and Elise Stefanik of New York.

According to Fox News, Schiff had scheduled a hearing titled “Emerging Technologies and National Security,” but the Republicans criticized him for neglecting hearings on the inspector general’s December report that outlined multiple abuses by the FBI in exploiting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on the Trump campaign.

“During this period of inadequate oversight, numerous critical issues pertinent to this Committee’s jurisdiction were ignored,” they wrote.

Compared with the 17 abuses noted by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, with the Justice Department confirming that two of the four FISA applications for wiretapping Trump adviser Carter Page lacked probable cause, Nunes and Stewart said Schiff’s agenda was little more than a distraction.

“Despite the seriousness of these issues and our clear jurisdiction, you have failed to hold a single briefing or hearing on this matter,” they said. “Until the Committee prioritizes oversight activities related to urgent and critical concerns, Republican Members cannot support distractions from our core responsibilities.”

It is not the first time the Republicans on the committee have pushed back. Following the failures of the Mueller Report last March to establish any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP members demanded that Schiff step down as chairman for his false claims that he had irrefutable evidence.

“Your willingness to continue to promote a demonstrably false narrative is alarming,” said Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas. “We have no faith in your ability to discharge your duty.”

Schiff’s own efforts to collude with the so-called whistleblower on the recent impeachment effort also may become the subject of their own investigation in the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, following President Donald Trump’s acquittal.

“I wanna find out how this crap started,” Graham said.

“… If the whistleblower was working with people on Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year and a half ago, I think that would be important,” he continued. “If the Schiff-staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important.”

Unhinged George Conway Calls for Impeachment Do-Over

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‘It’s about who Trump is, who he always was and who he always will be. It’s about the complete mismatch between the man and the office he holds…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) In an unhinged Washington Post op-ed Wednesday that seemed to demonstrate zero self-awareness, NeverTrumper George Conway ironically claimed that President Donald Trump had fired a White House staffer simply for being related to a political enemy.

Conway, the husband and perennial embarrassment of Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, suggested that the president’s recent relieving of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman; his twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman; and former European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland should trigger yet another impeachment.

All three had actively taken steps to undermine Trump and his policy agenda, costing them his trust and confidence. None were protected under whistleblower statutes or other legal guidelines, instead serving strictly at the will of the president as sole head of the executive branch.

Yet Conway, long ago embittered at being bypassed by Trump while his wife was elevated to the president’s inner circle, suggested their dismissal was grounds for an unprecedented double-jeopardy attempt at presidential removal.

Conway drew parallels with former President Richard Nixon’s so-called Friday Night Massacre, which he claimed “could have been a crime.”

“If Richard M. Nixon was to be impeached for authorizing hush money for witnesses, and Trump himself was actually impeached for directing defiance of House subpoenas, then there should be no doubt that punishing witnesses for complying with subpoenas and giving truthful testimony about presidential misconduct should make for a high crime or misdemeanor as well,” Conway claimed.

Notably, part of the reason House Democrats’ entirely partisan impeachment effort against Trump failed the first time around was the fact there was no crime involved, with neither of the House Democrats’ impeachment articles for “abuse of power” and “contempt of Congress” being statutorily defined.

Conway did not elaborate on why he thought the outcome of a second, do-over attempt that would further subvert the principles of American jurisprudence using legal loopholes, semantics and technicalities would have a different result than the first.

Fittingly, Kellyanne Conway preemptively made the case against her husband’s accusations in an appearance Monday on “Fox and Friends.”

She noted the Vindmans had been transferred to the Pentagon, and that such re-assignments were commonplace.

“And in the case of Ambassador Sondland, here is someone who—it was nice of the president to give him that post in the first place,” she said. “Here’s somebody who was, you know—I think leaned into what some others in the establishment Republican Party were doing.”

She said—contrary to Sondland’s claims that he was close to Trump—that the hotel executive’s ties to the president amounted to little more than his campaign patronage, and that he was hardly someone that Democrats would want to hang their political fortunes on.

“He wrote a big check to the inauguration but wasn’t really there before the president … And here’s somebody who, when he was testifying, couldn’t keep his own story straight.”

Their Own Playbook

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Nancy Pelosi rips up the speech during the State of the Union Address by President Donald Trump / IMAGE: TODAY via Youtube

The fact that the president’s opponents are so singular in their determination to impeach him also does a disservice to their actual efforts to conduct it under shaky pretenses.

Trump already enraged Democrats—to the point of ripping up his State of the Union address—when he experienced a boost in his approval rating following his Senate acquittal, as people increasingly saw the greater “abuse of power” resting with his political adversaries.

Conway, who claims to be a Republican despite all evidence to the contrary, admitted that his own personal vendetta was the primary justification for his argument.

“[I]t’s really not about this one day, or this one egregious act,” he acknowledged. “It’s about who Trump is, who he always was and who he always will be. It’s about the complete mismatch between the man and the office he holds.”

Like many on the Left, Conway failed to recognize that the reasoning behind his attack on Trump was precisely the source of Trump’s political appeal for conservatives outraged by decades’ worth of Democratic hypocrisy and impunity.

In a sense, it is not at all about who Trump is but what he symbolizes: the proverbial red-line in the sand for those fed up with the Swamp’s cronyism, games and back-room bargains that scoff at the will of the people.

What rightfully infuriates Democrats is that rather than capitulating to extortion by immoral power-brokers, conservatives are pushing back with the Manhattan real-estate mogul who cut his teeth and made a fortune navigating the corruption of New York City politics.

The more Trump’s enemies try to advance their political outcomes, the deeper they force themselves into a “briar patch” from which no amount of deep-state wrangling can disentangle them.

JUDICIAL WATCH: Emails Show Dems Sought to Sway Rosenstein’s Mueller Appointment

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‘Eric Holder just called for you. Please call him…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Judicial Watch announced it had obtained an additional 382 pages of correspondence from former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein revealing the left-wing pressure campaign to influence him in what would become the Mueller investigation.

Rosenstein assumed the top oversight of the probe into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself.

Two days before the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, for instance, Rosenstein received a vague and mysterious message that former Attorney General Eric Holder was attempting to reach him.

“Eric Holder just called for you. Please call him,” said the email from Public Affairs Specialist Marsha Murphy, undoubtedly aware of the possibility that its substance could become public under the Freedom of Information Act.

A day before Robert Mueller‘s May 17, 2017 appointment, U.S. Attorney John Huber wrote to Rosenstein, “Rod, We’re proud of you.”

Judicial Watch noted that Huber was later appointed by Sessions to oversee another highly controversial probe into the Clinton Foundation.

After nearly two years and more than $30 million spent, the Mueller Report was released in April 2019, concluding that there was no evidence to establish any direct ties between Trump and Russia.

Trump’s allies have questioned how quickly Mueller might have reached that determination, noting that Democrats campaigned heavily on it during the 2018 election in which they reclaimed the U.S. House of Representatives.

Having pledged repeatedly to impeach Trump over the claims of Russia collusion, House Democrats ultimately did so on an unrelated claims of abuse of power in Ukraine and obstruction of Congress, but Trump was acquitted of the divisive charges last week.

The latest batch of Judicial Watch emails follows an October release that also hinted at Rosenstein’s partisan loyalties to members of the deep-state, anti-Trump resistance.

In an email to one of his DOJ predecessors, Mark Filip, Rosenstein wrote, “I am with Mueller. He shares my view. Duty calls. Sometimes the moment chooses us.”

Cuomo Claims DHS Retaliated Against NY Sanctuary Policies; Retaliates by Suing

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‘This is Ukraine-style extortion right here in our own country…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Following a familiar pattern of accusing President Donald Trump of “retaliation” while downplaying the provocations that may have invited it, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained that the dialing back of services by the Department of Homeland Security was a ‘punishment’ for the so-called sanctuary state‘s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Cuomo’s office on Tuesday touted another “bombshell” report from Buzzfeed, the left-wing media outlet best known for cat pictures, clickbait quizzes and publishing the Steele Dossier.

As it did with the debunked dossier, Buzzfeed claimed to have obtained a leaked DHS memo that discussed possible forms of retribution against New York and other far-left blue states that have defiantly flouted federal law.

Among other recent affronts, New York recently drew controversy for greenlighting a policy to administer driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, raising concerns about widespread voter-ID fraud and related issues.

The law also blocks state officials from sharing information with DHS authorities, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“[T]he administration considered using ‘friendly’ states to discreetly collect information for federal immigration authorities that would otherwise be inaccessible by law,” said the article.

“The plans also include retaliation measures against states that limit access to records, such as closing down DHS offices there, refusing to accept their state identification, cutting TSA PreCheck services, and potentially subpoenaing for drivers’ licenses provided to undocumented immigrants,” it declared.

Many of those courses of action fall well within the purview of the federal agency as legitimate, legal means for addressing New York’s noncompliance.

The alleged Buzzfeed memo has not yet been independently verified by reliable news sources. However, DHS appeared to have confirmed its authenticity—while downplaying its significance.

“As the memo clearly states, the recommendations were informational, draft, and pre-decisional,” DHS spokesperson Heather Swift said in a statement, according to Buzzfeed.

“The Acting Secretary did not consider the draft recommendations in his decision making,” Swift said. “Instead, the Acting Secretary took targeted and limited action to address the security vulnerability New York’s law created.”

Nonetheless, Cuomo’s office whined that the nothingburger memo was “smoking gun” evidence of a “politically motivated” persecution campaign by the White House.

“From the beginning we have said the Trump administration’s decision to ban New Yorkers from the trusted traveler program was politically motivated retaliation meant to specifically punish New York. We were right,” it said in a press statement.

“The leaked DHS memo is the smoking gun that proves that the Trump administration is once again knowingly abusing power by using government to extort states for political purposes, with no rational link to a legitimate policy,” Cuomo claimed.

As is often the case with any action taken by the Trump administration, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued in response—although clearly not in any sort of a retaliatory fashion.

“Make no mistake: We will not allow New York to be used as President Trump’s punching bag, and we will fight against this illegal and retaliatory policy with every tool available until it is overturned,” Cuomo pledged.

Perplexingly, the Democrat governor’s office sought to link the Buzzfeed memo with the failed House impeachment effort that recently netted Trump an acquittal and a boost in his approval ratings.

“The memo reported on by BuzzFeed is a clear, documented admission by the Trump administration that they are purposely targeting law-abiding U.S. citizens to play partisan politics,” Cuomo claimed, without evidence.

Cuomo then hinted that the alleged memo, which appears already to be public, was part of a cover-up conspiracy.

“This is Ukraine-style extortion right here in our own country,” he said.  “The Trump administration should release the memo immediately.”

While celebrating his acquittal last week, Trump predicted that vindictive, partisan leftists wound not let the failure of the recent impeachment derail additional efforts, particularly in his former home state.

“I’m sure they’ll try and cook up other things. They’ll go through the state of New York, they’ll go through other places. They’ll do whatever they can,” Trump said.

“Because, instead of trying to heal our country and fix our country, all they want to do, in my opinion—it’s almost like they want to destroy our country,” he added. “We can’t let it happen.”

Texas Sues California over Its Divisive Travel Ban

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‘Boycotting states based on nothing more than political disagreement breaks down the ability of states to serve as laboratories of democracy…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Texas has sued California after California passed a law prohibiting state-funded travel to Texas and a handful of other states.

The 2016 California law prevents state employees and university students from traveling to any state deemed “discriminatory” by California’s state government.

Texas was included on the travel ban because it allows Christian adoption agencies to prevent LGBT couples from adopting children. Other states, such as Iowa, were included on the ban because of laws that prohibit Medicaid spending on transgender surgeries.

Right now, the travel ban lists 11 states. But Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, said California’s efforts are nothing more than an attempt to “divide the nation.”

“Texas respects and honors the religious beliefs of its citizens. California lawmakers do not. As a co-author of California’s travel ban admitted, they see religious beliefs as nothing more than a ‘code to discriminate against different people,'” Paxton said in a statement.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told Politico that California is “reviewing” Texas’s lawsuit. However, its complaint will not change California’s decision “not to use taxpayer money to support laws discriminating against the LGBTQ community,” he noted.

“California has taken an unambiguous stand against discrimination and government actions that would enable it,” he said after adding Iowa to the travel ban last year.

Texas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its complaint against California, arguing that the travel ban amounts to “economic sanctions” because it deprives the state of normal commerce granted to other states.

“Boycotting states based on nothing more than political disagreement breaks down the ability of states to serve as laboratories of democracy while still working together as one nation—the very thing our Constitution intended to prevent,” Paxton said.

However, other states have sought a different approach, with Texas’s neighbor to the north, Oklahoma, recently enacting its own reciprocal ban on California.

WATCH: Mike Bloomberg Defends Racial Profiling, Controversial ‘Stop and Frisk’ Policy

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‘Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Hours after a new poll showed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg surging among African–American voters, a 2015 audio recording surfaced in which Bloomberg appears to advocate for racial profiling to reduce crime.

The former New York City mayor made the comments at a 2015 appearance at the Aspen Institute. He defended the city’s “stop and frisk policy”—which current NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio did away with a few years ago.

It’s necessary to “put a lot of cops” in minority neighborhoods because that’s where “all the crime is,” Bloomberg argued.

“Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O.,” Bloomberg said, according to the audio.

“You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,” he continued. “They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. That’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is.”

Bloomberg also claimed that the increased police presence in those neighborhoods to protect against violent crimes had sometimes resulted in stricter enforcement of lesser infractions.

“So one of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities,’” Bloomberg said. “Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them.”

After the audio surfaced on Tuesday, Bloomberg issued an apology and said his 2015 remarks “do not reflect my commitment to criminal justice reform and racial equity.”

But those were not the only comments Bloomberg has made in support of racial profiling. In a different interview, Bloomberg argued that, if anything, the city’s law enforcement “disproportionately stops whites too much, and minorities too little.”

Just yesterday, a national poll found that Bloomberg was the second favorite among African American voters, with 22% of the vote, while former Vice President Joe Biden dropped down to 27%.

Trump Predicts AOC Will Challenge Schumer—And Win

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‘I think she will kick his ass…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump predicted last week that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., will launch a primary bid against Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in the 2022 New York Senate election—and win.

Trump reportedly said Ocasio–Cortez could “kick [Schumer’s] ass” if she ran against him, according to Fox News’s Bret Baier.

Schumer’s impeachment failure could hurt his chances at reelection, Trump explained, noting that the same goes for other Democratic leaders, such as House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Ocasio–Cortez has been hailed as the “future of the Democratic Party” by many radical liberals, and she’s admitted she fully intends to push the Democratic Party farther to the Left.

Last month, Ocasio–Cortez argued that the U.S.’s current political structure leaves no room for leftists, and claimed the Democratic Party is actually the “center-conservative” party.

“We can’t even get a floor vote on Medicare-for-all — not even a floor vote that gets voted down. We can’t even get a vote on it,” she continued.

“So this is not a ‘left’ party. There are ‘left’ members inside the Democratic Party that are working to try to make that shift happen.”

Another of Ocasio–Cortez’s controversial proposals, the Green New Deal, received a floor vote in the Senate but was unanimously defeated after many Democratic senators, including the bill’s co-sponsors, refused to vote in favor of it.

AOC Blames McConnell, NRA for New York’s Rising Attacks on Police

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‘This is not my district, but our thoughts are with all officers & people impacted by this shooting & the epidemic of gun violence in this country…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Violence against police officers continues to rise in New York City, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested the National Rifle Association and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are to blame.

After two New York Police Department officers were shot this weekend, Ocasio–Cortez was asked to respond. She did so with a tweet, deflecting responsibility by claiming it did not occur within the confines of her congressional district.

It is unclear how attacks on law-enforcement would be curbed by additional anti-gun measures—of which blue-state New York already has an abundant number.

New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said the idea that gun control would have prevented the two attacks is simply not true.

The perpetrator had a “lengthy violent criminal history,” Shea said Sunday, including a 10-year prison sentence for attempted murder, according to The Washington Post. This means the perpetrator had already been barred from owning or possessing firearms.

New York City’s police unions have blamed the increasing antagonism toward law enforcement on this kind of misguided rhetoric. Just this week, the Sergeants Benevolent Association announced it was “declaring war” on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who “sold the NYPD to the vile creatures, the 1% who hate cops.”

Patrick Lynch, president of the NYC Police Benevolent Association, urged de Blasio and New York’s other elected officials to “start listening to us and working with us—not against us.”

“These targeted attacks are exactly what we have warned against, again and again,” Lynch said. “The hatred and violence directed at cops continues to grow. Good luck and kind words are not enough to keep police officers or the public safe.”

Utah Republicans Support Resolution to Formally Censure Mitt Romney

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‘A lot of us feel that it’s sort of an embarrassment to our party…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Utah Republicans introduced a resolution this week to censure Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, for his vote to impeach President Donald Trump.

The resolution, proposed by state Rep. Phil Lyman, would formally censure Romney for being the only Republican to cast a vote against Trump. A similar resolution, introduced in the GOP State Central Committee, would censure Romney for abandoning the president “despite zero evidence of a federal crime committed or any wrongdoing that rises to the level of removal of office.”

The resolution also reminds the state that Romney gladly “accepted President Trump’s endorsement and expressed his support for President Trump” when he ran for Senate.

The censure would do nothing but express “severe disapproval” for Romney if the Utah Republican Party passes it, said Brandon Beckham, a member of the Utah GOP’s State Central Committee. But it still allows Utah Republicans to respond to Romney’s “betrayal,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune.

“A lot of us feel that it’s sort of an embarrassment to our party,” he said.

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But not everyone in the Utah GOP support the move. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has made it clear he will not support a censure vote against Romney, arguing that it “would be just a mistake to go down that road.”

Romney reportedly met with state leaders this week, and after the “tense” meeting, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson and state Senate President Stuart Adams announced they would support Lyman’s resolution “offering tribute” to Trump.

“We’re not censuring him for voting his conscience. We’re censuring him for the positions that he’s taken through this whole process,” Lyman said. “And to send a message that we want to have good relationships with the White House, we want to have good relationships with President Trump.”

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