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Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on CNN: ‘Reckoning’ coming for GOP

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a freshman Democrat from Boulder, didn’t mince words about what he sees ahead for Republicans.

“There is a reckoning developing in the Republican Party in which Republican members of Congress are going to have to choose either country or party,” he said during a panel discussion on the Sunday morning CNN show “State of the Union.”

Neguse joined host Jake Tapper and a bipartisan panel to discuss how the president and his party are holding up under the weight of an impeachment probe and a controversial shift in foreign policy in Syria. The segment began with a discussion of retiring Republican U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney saying he was “very concerned” for the future of his party.

Panelist Sean Duffy, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin until he resigned last month, told Tapper he didn’t see any evidence of a GOP collapse.

“It the middle of America, where you have to actually keep the Senate and we have so many House seats, we are doing really well,” he said, attributing it to the GOP’s “big tent.”

Neguse said you need only look around at a Trump rally to see a lack of diversity of the Republican Party.

“When you look at how this president has demonized Americans who are immigrants, refugees, like my parents, divided us along racial lines, religious lines and so many others, I don’t think he’s going to do well in Colorado,” Neguse said. “He’s deeply unpopular in our state.”

A Keating-Onsight-Martin Colorado Poll released last week gave Trump only a 38% favorability rating in the state, where 48% support his removal from office.

Neguse serves on the House Judiciary Committee, and he was one of the early calls for impeachment. The evidence is plain, he said Sunday morning.

“We know for a fact that this president tried to get a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 presidential election,” Neguse said. “… We know that from the call summary notes.”

You can watch the segment by clicking here.

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Boulder speaks on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, seated next to Amanda Carpenter, a former spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz.
Photo courtesy of CNN
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