Republican Senators Are Starting To Bail On Trump's GOP Convention

At least 5 Republican Senators have announced that they will not be attending Donald Trump's nomination ceremony in Jacksonville, Florida in August. Skipping this part of the GOP convention is a big deal, and these Republicans have no qualms about staying home for this one. Some of them say that their age is a factor and they are high-risk for Coronavirus, while others, like Mitt Romney, are abstaining because of who Trump is as a person. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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A growing number of Republican senators have now said that they will not be attending Donald Trump's acceptance speech that is going to take place at the Jacksonville, Florida portion of the Republican national convention coming up in August. And the reason that they're not going to do this varies from person to person, but so far, there's at least five Republican senators. Uh, Chuck Grassley, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Lamar Alexander who say that, sorry, but we're just not going to be able to make it now for people like Grassley Grassley says, listen, I'm over 80 years old. I am high risk for coronavirus. And this thing down in Florida, we we've seen the numbers come out of Florida. Uh, yeah, I'm not going there. And that's true. And that's, you know, good on Grassley because the state of Florida here, uh, we've, we've, we've kind of let ourselves go really, to be honest with what's happening with the COVID-19 cases.

As we have seen more than a 50 or 60,000 in just the last seven days, we hit over 11,000, just a couple days ago. Um, we're doing very bad and it's only getting worse. We do not have it under control. Our governor announced just a couple days ago that heat on care. We're opening schools in August, uh, which puts my children. Everybody's children in the state at risk. My wife is a teacher, so we've got even more risk. Basically. I would be the only member of my family, not going into a crowded school every single day. So a pretty much a given at that point that somebody is going to end up bringing this thing into my household. And Chuck Grassley wants to avoid that in his household. So he says, I'm not going good for you, Grassley. I'm glad you have that choice because that choice has been taken away from the rest of us, actually living in Florida, as for some of the other folks, they've made it clear that it has nothing to do with the Corona virus, has everything to do with who Donald Trump is as a person.

Now that's just the kind of thing. They simply cannot. They cannot under any circumstance condone. They don't want to be a part of it. They don't like the guy. They don't like what he is allegedly doing to their party, which the only thing he's doing to their party is exposing what they have become. You know, typically they were able to kind of gloss over the people like Trump and the party. But as soon as you put them at the top, Whoa, my God, that exposes all of the rot within the Republican party. And they don't want to be a part of that. And all of this, by the way is going to hurt Trump's feelings. It doesn't matter what their reasons for skipping the convention are. It could be because of the virus. It could be because we simply hate you. It could be because, Oh shoot, I scheduled a family vacation at that time.

I'm sorry, I can't come. Trump's going to be pissed. And he's going to make sure that they know he is pissed. Some of them may end up caving, you know, Collins, Murkowski though. Those kind of seem like the people who are totally willing to cave. Cause they're like, no, I'm not going to this thing. If Trump calls them out one single time, they'll be there.