Sasse marches to own tune as GOP implodes around him

[DonViejo]

If there's a model for how to successfully build a conservative GOP out of Trump's shadow, it might as well be the Nebraska Republican.

By BURGESS EVERETT

02/27/2021 07:00 AM EST

Ben Sasse is about to be censured by the Nebraska GOP for his antagonistic stance toward Donald Trump — again. But he doesn't care.

As Sasse's fellow Republican critics of Trump fret over blowback from a base that demands loyalty to the ex-president, the senator isn't even trying to dissuade those seeking to punish him. Sasse conceded in an interview: “I assume I'm going to be censured on Saturday, but I haven't spent any time to talk anybody out of it.”

“I care about a lot of the people, but I don't really care about the censure,” he said ahead of the expected condemnation from his state’s Republican Party. “There are a lot of really good people involved in party activism. But I don't think they're at all representative of regular Nebraskans … Nebraska is a lot Trumpier than I am. But I got a lot more votes than he did.”

Sasse just won a race down-ballot from Trump and is as relaxed as one can be about his political situation. He's facing no internal pressure in the Senate for his vote to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection. A previous censure in 2016 did not rattle his views. If there's a model for how to successfully build a conservative GOP out of Trump's shadow, it might as well be him.

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