Romney is the first Senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president of his own party -- and that's stirred strong reactions on both sides of the aisle.
You thought Nancy Pelosi had torn Washington apart, along with her copy of the State of the Union address. And then Mitt Romney became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president of his own party on Wednesday, as the lone Republican to side with Democrats in voting Donald Trump guilty of the first article of impeachment: abuse of power.
On Twitter TWTR, -3.62% , Trump called Romney a “failed presidential candidate,” and mocked his loss to a “faltering Barack Obama” in 2012: — MARK SIMONE February 5, 2020 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wrote, incongruously, “Mitt’s flat wrong on this, and he doesn’t represent the views of any Republican in Congress”:
Mitt Romney is forever bitter that he will never be POTUS. He was too weak to beat the Democrats then so he’s joining them now.— Donald Trump Jr.
— Jeff Flake February 5, 2020 Romney noted that this hadn’t been an easy vote for him. “I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong,” Romney said in his speech Wednesday.
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Mitt Romney Votes To Convict Trump For Abuse Of PowerI’m a San Francisco-based reporter covering breaking news at Forbes. Previously, I’ve reported for USA Today, Business Insider, The San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Inside. I studied journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and was an editor at The Daily Orange, the university’s independent student newspaper. Follow me on Twitter rachsandl or shoot me an email rsandlerforbes.com.
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Invoking his faith, an emotional Mitt Romney announces he'll vote to convict TrumpJUST IN: Sen. Mitt Romney will vote to convict Pres. Trump on the charge of abuse of power, but vote to acquit on obstruction of justice, a spokesperson tells ABC News.
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