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No trace of Corona: Trump on Tuesday at an election campaign event. Image: keystone
Trump’s party has a fire under its roof: Republicans openly admit their mistakes
The image of the united Republican Party crumbles a few days before the US elections. Two prominent representatives dared to criticize Trump’s coronation policy.
Republicans have fire under their roof: two prominent party representatives this week dared to meet with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, with strong criticism for his crown policy. Among them was Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. In a telephone conversation with his voters, he accused Trump of ruining the pandemic with his policy to ingratiate himself with “white dictators and racists.”
Sasse was noticed before with direct criticism of Trump. In 2016, even before the historic presidential election, Sasse was “frustrated and depressed” by Trump’s nomination. Back then, he accused Trump of further dividing America.
Four years later, the senator remains firm in his critical position. Sasse described Trump’s pandemic policy as a “public relations crisis” that was not “reasonable, responsible or correct.” He also made no secret of what he thought of Trump’s foreign policy.
Republicans face a “bloodbath”
Ben Sasse is respected among Republicans. Image: keystone
He accuses his party colleague of “kissing the butt of dictators” and recalls the human rights violations in China: “He ignored the Uighurs in the Xinjiang concentration camps.” Trump also never distanced himself from right-wing extremists. “Trump flirted with white racists,” Sasse accuses the incumbent president instead.
Therefore, he does not believe that Trump will be re-elected in just under three weeks. Sasse fears this will also affect his party, which Trump had supported for the past four years. He even suspects that Republicans are threatened with a “bloodbath in the Senate.”
The second Trump critic to go public this week was Republican Chris Christie. The former governor of New Jersey contracted the coronavirus in the White House and fell seriously ill. He admitted to the “New York Times” errors in handling the virus.
Christie pretends to be purified
During his seven days in intensive care, he had time to think, Christie told the New York Times on Thursday. It was a mistake not to have worn a mask at an event at the White House in late September. He assumed he was in a “safe zone” there. “I was wrong.”
Christie’s infection was known after that of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in early October. He had previously also helped Trump prepare for the television debate against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. After the debate and the event at the White House, several people around the president tested positive.
Christie cautioned against taking the virus lightly. “It is something to be taken very seriously,” he said, calling on people in public office to advocate for Americans to wear masks in public, maintain social distance and wash their hands frequently. “No one should be happy to contract the virus and no one should be proud of being infected or infecting others.” (well / sda / dpa)
