The big story today is the one about a big-mouthed senator by the name of Ben Sasse, who is too sassy for his own party's good.
Sasse can get away with it because he represents Nebraska, and voters there will vote a chimpanzee in the Senate over any Democrat as long as that chimp has an "R" after its name.
Sasse, who is up for reelection in November, publicly criticized the president on several occasions in the early years of his presidency. In 2019 and 2020, however, his criticisms were less frequent. The president endorsed Sasse for reelection last September. It is not clear when the audio of Sasse was recorded.
A spokesman for Sasse told the Examiner the senator’s focus was on maintaining GOP control of the Senate.
In an audio clip of the call, obtained by the Washington Examiner, a female constituent asks Sasse to explain “your relationship with the president” and wonders, “Why do you have to criticize him so much?”
At first, Sasse focused on his points of agreement with Trump. But the senator soon began to unload, spending the majority of his nearly ten-minute answer assailing the president.
Sasse spokesman James Wegmann confirmed that his boss made the comments, saying the call occurred earlier this week.
“I don’t know how many more times we can shout this: Even though the Beltway is obsessing exclusively about the presidential race, control of the Senate is ten times more important,” he said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. "The fragile Senate seats that will determine whether Democrats nuke the Senate are the races Ben cares about, the races he’s working on, and the only races he’s talking about.”
In the call, Sasse said Trump refused to take COVID-19 seriously at the outset, treating it like a public relations crisis instead of a public health challenge.
The audio of the conversation in question is at the WE site.
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