Trump’s efforts to sway Republican primary voters and disparage Mr. Rice said on Friday, referring to the Republican base. “I don’t feel like I fit in with that group anymore,” Ms. Rice has been made a pariah among those in Mr. “Kevin went to Mar-a-Lago this weekend, shook his hand, took a picture and set up. Rice did not vote to certify the election, however, saying he had become concerned about ballot discrepancies in Pennsylvania that were outlined in a letter to House Republican leadership.ĭuring a House Republican meeting one month after the Capitol riots, he defended Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach and criticized Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, for his continued embrace of the former president, according to audio from the exchange. I have a duty to uphold the Constitution. And I’ll do it the next day or the day after that. When it came time for his vote, he said he had “zero question in my mind” about whether Mr. As he learned of the president’s refusal to stop the attack, he became incensed. Trump, and spent that Saturday and Sunday in his home congressional district reading the dozens of stories he had asked his staff to send him about the president’s whereabouts on Jan. Rice said, he considered voting to impeach Mr. In the days after the riot at the Capitol, Mr. 6 prime-time hearing on Thursday night, which featured footage of the Capitol riots and incriminating testimony from close Trump associates, “puts an exclamation point on what we did,” referring to the 10 House Republicans who backed impeachment. We desperately need somebody who’s going to bring people together. And I think if he does run again, he hurts the Republican Party. 6 attacks, he argued that the former president had overstayed his welcome in the G.O.P. Five years after those reforms and 17 months after the Jan. Rice, a pro-business conservative and self-proclaimed Chamber of Commerce Republican, helped craft Mr. I think he had a duty to try to stop it, and he failed in that duty.” “To me, his gross failure - his inexcusable failure - was when it started,” Mr. Trump, have tried to salvage their political careers by walking back their comments or retiring from Congress, Mr. Fry but is instead bracing for a tough runoff with him.īut while some, after crossing Mr. His campaign is not counting on an outright win against Mr. Rice sounded every bit like a man in the fight for his political life. In a 35-minute interview on Friday alongside his wife, Wrenzie, after a barbecue luncheon campaign event, Mr. “He lifted up his hand and that was the end of his political career - or we hope it was,” Mr. Rice as a “back-stabbing RINO,” the acronym for Republican in name only, a conservative slur. Rice’s seat behind State Representative Russell Fry, calling into a rally for Mr. He threw his support in the Republican primary for Mr. Rice, a five-term congressman, one of his top priorities in the state’s primary elections on Tuesday. 6 attacks, has a catchall term to describe the former president’s crusade against him: Trump’s Very Presidential Traveling Revenge Circus. Tom Rice, the South Carolina congressman who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach President Donald J. Follow our live updates on primary elections and results in South Carolina.
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