Republican Senator from Nebraska denounced Trump

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Republican senator Ben Sasse predicts Donald Trump will 'LOSE | Daily Mail Online
Senator Ben Sasse has long been a Never Trumper and was briefly considered as a last ditch independent candidate for president in 2016 that Never Trumper Republicans could vote for. He decided not to run at that time. Evan McMullen ran in that role instead. Sasse stayed in the Senate. He is a fiscally and socially conservative Senator and rather popular in Nebraska. This year he decided not to endorse any other candidates except for one, who is running against a Democrat who is essentially a socialist.

While I notice some calling Ben Sasse a RINO, I would think he is a traditional pre-Trump Republican, with good pro-life credentials, and fairly popular with his constituents.
 
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While I notice some calling Ben Sasse a RINO, I would think he is a traditional pre-Trump Republican, with good pro-life credentials, and fairly popular with his constituents.
That is what he sounds like to me, a traditional pre-Trump Republican.
 
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That is what he sounds like to me, a traditional pre-Trump Republican.

I thought right back in 2016 that this would be the real danger. Trump would normalize his behavior so much that the likes of a Cruz would start seeming moderate by comparison.
 
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That is what he sounds like to me, a traditional pre-Trump Republican.

They all will start sounding like Pre-Trump republican. If Trump is not re-elected in November, all the republicans who enabled Trump will not even know who Trump is. As a conservative I will not support any republicans who enabled Trump last four years, no matter how sensible they sound going forward.

I can’t speak for others, but for me to support Republican party in future, it will need complete purge of Trumpism, including those who enabled Trump for last 4 years.
 
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They all will start sounding like Pre-Trump republican. If Trump is not re-elected in November, all the republicans who enabled Trump will not even know who Trump is. As a conservative I will not support any republicans who enabled Trump last four years, no matter how sensible they sound going forward.

I can’t speak for others, but for me to support Republican party in future, it will need complete purge of Trumpism, including those who enabled Trump for last 4 years.

What kind of Republican would you support? What kind of things would they have to say for you to think they sounded sensible?
 
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I can’t speak for others, but for me to support Republican party in future, it will need complete purge of Trumpism, including those who enabled Trump for last 4 years.

That's fine but I think you might find yourself in a nation but not feeling a part of it for a great many years.
 
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That's fine but I think you might find yourself in a nation but not feeling a part of it for a great many years.

I am American, I don’t need to “feel Good” by associating myself with a party.
 
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They all will start sounding like Pre-Trump republican. If Trump is not re-elected in November, all the republicans who enabled Trump will not even know who Trump is. As a conservative I will not support any republicans who enabled Trump last four years, no matter how sensible they sound going forward.

I can’t speak for others, but for me to support Republican party in future, it will need complete purge of Trumpism, including those who enabled Trump for last 4 years.
Having been a rather low level Republican decisionmaker, or you could call me a political hack, that is a delegate to my state Republican Convention in 2016, many and even most of us at that level tried mightily to stop Trump. But once the primary holding states delivered their verdict it was really all over. Trump did a hostile takeover of the Republican Party as far as my perspective goes. Most of us did not 'enable' Trump.

I'm in exile at the moment, and while in exile I'm looking at the American Solidarity Party. It's centrist, pro-life, small government, and has zero chance of winning any time soon. But I like what I see. It's ancestry is the great Christian Democratic Parties of Europe, and people like Conrad Adenaur and Helmut Kohl. I may stick around in hopes they can launch. It would be a good place for old fashioned Democrats who are not socialists to land. And for Republicans who are not Trumpists. It SHOULD have the potential, based on it's political position, to be a majority party. What holds it back is all of those people who will vote for Biden to stop Trump and those who will vote for Trump to stop Biden. I call them Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
 
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While I notice some calling Ben Sasse a RINO, I would think he is a traditional pre-Trump Republican, with good pro-life credentials, and fairly popular with his constituents.
Yes, Sasse is Sasse and nothing particularly shocking except that he does speak out on certain policies that he opposes. But if his voting record is checked out, he's actually much less of a political "rebel" than some other Senators.
 
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I thought right back in 2016 that this would be the real danger. Trump would normalize his behavior so much that the likes of a Cruz would start seeming moderate by comparison.
I don't think Sasse sounds like a moderate, not even close.
 
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:doh:Wow! One person in the nation isn't going to vote for Trump. Do you think you might be able to find two? :swoon:
cow451 is #2.
 
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:doh:Wow! One person in the nation isn't going to vote for Trump. Do you think you might be able to find two? :swoon:
For what it's worth, I cannot find anything that reports Sen. Sasse as saying that he won't vote for the President. And that's not as unlikely as it may sound at first since there is arguably much less to like with Biden.

He predicted that Trump will lose, according to the newspaper, but that seems to be it.
 
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:doh:Wow! One person in the nation isn't going to vote for Trump. Do you think you might be able to find two? :swoon:
Is this sarcasm ... or actual ignorance of the many Republicans who won't be voting for trump?
 
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