Kentucky Senator Rand Paul warns of a mass exodus from the Republican party if GOP senator join the Democrats and come together to convict President Trump in a second impeachment trial.
Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox, Paul was asked about Mitch McConnell leaving open the possibility of a senate trial.
Paul said:
“I don’t often get asked my advice from leadership how they should react. My unsolicited suggestion would be this: they will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit with an impeachment or leadership votes for an impeachment, they will destroy the party…
Impeachment is purely a partisan thing. It’s for these moral, ‘Oh I’m so much better than you and you’re a bad person because I’m so moral’ — It’s for these kind of people to do this.
I didn’t agree with the fight that happened last week, and I voted against overturning the election. But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. But if Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party — a third of the Republicans will leave the party.
This isn’t anymore about the Electoral College. It’s about the future of the party and whether you’re going to ostracize and ex-communicate President Trump from the party. Well, guess what? Millions of his fans will leave as well.”