How many Republicans do you need to screw American voters and deny them the right to have their ballots counted in an election?
These so-called patriots wished Trump their party’s leader, according to a pre ious CNN poll. But they have differing views about his role in the party and his strength as a presidential nominee divides within the GOP. Our GOP count, indicates 69 Congressional Representatives, 10 US Senators, and three ugly American Governors.
Marsha Blackburn — the Tennessee senator endorsed Trump following the former president's meeting with Tennessee Republicans in April.
Ted Budd — after winning his North Carolina US Senate seat with Trump's backing, Budd endorsed Trump in April.
Steve Daines — the Montana senator, who also serves as the head of Senate Republicans' campaign arm, endorsed Trump in an appearance on Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast in April.
Lindsey Graham — the guy with two faces is a long-serving South Carolina senator who has formed a close relationship with Trump over the years, becoming one of his leading allies in Congress. Lindsey Graham tweeted praise of Trump's speech that appeared to endorse his candidacy.
Bill Hagerty — the Tennessee senator, who previously served as US Ambassador to Japan under Trump, offered his "wholehearted endorsement" to the former president in April.
Cindy Hyde-Smith — the freshman Mississippi senator announced her support for Trump in April, saying he was "attentive to the needs" of her state as president.
Markwayne Mullin — the Oklahoma freshman announced in February on Truth Social that he's "proud to endorse the strongest president of my lifetime, Donald J. Trump, for a second term in 2024."
Eric Schmitt — the newly elected senator told Politico in January he's backing the former president in 2024, who also endorsed Schmitt in Missouri's GOP primary last year.
Tommy Tuberville — the Alabama senator endorsed Trump in a tweet just days after he launched his 2024 bid, becoming the first Republican senator to do so. Tuberville, a former Auburn University head football coach, later told Insider that Trump's "leadership role experience" was especially important to him.
JD Vance — the freshman senator and author of the bestselling book "Hillbilly Elegy," who secured Trump's endorsement in last year's Ohio GOP primary, declared his support for the former president in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on January 31, praising his foreign policy record.
As the number of indictments continues to grow, and lawsuits pile up, the pressure increases on the former guy as his growing legal woes expand from local to federal jurisdictions. The alleged crime spree charges lasted from 11/15-1/6.
Former President Trump and six unnamed co-conspirators followed a five-part plan to cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith alleged in a criminal indictment. The indictment alleges that Trump conspired to "impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government," including by "knowingly" using false claims of election fraud "to subvert the legitimate election results."
Meanwhile, Mike Pence addressed Tuesday his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump's federal indictment in the Jan. 6 investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
What Pence is saying: "Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States," Trump's former vice president said in a statement that also emphasized that the ex-president was entitled to a presumption of innocence.
TRUMP’S COUP, IS STOCHASTIC TERRORISM, SEDITION, AND ATTEMPTING TO FOMENT A CIVIL WAR - The charging document looks and reads like a set of Obstruction, Fraud, and Civil Rights charges and it will go into history as the fiercest damnation of the worst criminal in American history. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id…