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Sasse Denounces Effort To Overturn Electoral Vote

December 31, 2020 at 8:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) wrote on Facebook that the effort in Congress to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory was a “dangerous ploy.”

Said Sasse: “All the clever arguments and rhetorical gymnastics in the world won’t change the fact that this January 6th effort is designed to disenfranchise millions of Americans simply because they voted for someone in a different party. We ought to be better than that.”

Washington Post: Trump has yet to accept election results, months after Republicans said he would.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Says Whistleblower Report Is ‘Very Troubling’

September 25, 2019 at 8:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), after reading the classified whistleblower complaint, told CBS News: “Republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons to say there’s no there there when there’s obviously lots that’s very troubling there.”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Says Foreign Involvement In Elections Is ‘Very Bad’

September 25, 2019 at 4:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Asked if a U.S. president asking a foreign government to investigate the family of his American political rival is an abuse of power, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told the National Review: “In general terms, American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Blames Pelosi for His Vote Backing Trump

March 15, 2019 at 2:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) explained in a statement after voting against a rebuke of President Trump declaration of a border emergency that it’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fault.

While Sasse thinks the law Trump used to declare an emergency to sidestep Congress “is overly broad” and in need of a fix, “at present Nancy Pelosi doesn’t, so I am therefore voting against her politically motivated resolution. As a constitutional conservative, I believe that the law currently on the books should be narrowed considerably.”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Ben Sasse, Nancy Pelosi

Flake and Sasse Blasted for Never Standing Up to Trump

October 19, 2018 at 12:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Toobin called out Sens. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) on CNN, saying they talk about standing up to President Trump but actually “do nothing.”

Said Toobin: “They never vote against the president. They never actually take a stand.”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake

Sasse Warns of ‘Deepfake’ Perfect Storm

October 14, 2018 at 9:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) — who’ll be out Tuesday with his second book, Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal — tells Axios about new artificial intelligence algorithms that can create convincing fake images, audio and video and potentially disrupt our politics.

Said Sasse: “I had a conversation last month with one of the most senior U.S. intelligence officials, who told me that many leaders in the intelligence community worry that we’re on the verge of a deepfakes ‘perfect storm.'”

Filed Under: Dirty Tricks Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Wants to ‘Drain the Swamp for Real’

September 14, 2018 at 8:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) “introduced an ethics reform package of bills that included proposals to require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release their income tax returns and ban members of Congress from ever becoming paid lobbyists,” the Lincoln Journal Star reports.

Said Sasse: “Drain the swamp for real. Both parties talk a big game on the campaign trail, but then look the other way as soon as they get a taste of power.”

Filed Under: Ethics Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Said He’s Considered Leaving the GOP

September 8, 2018 at 10:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) acknowledged on Twitter that he “regularly” considers leaving the Republican party.

Sasse was responding to someone who said they left the Democratic party to become a “no party” voter and asked the GOP senator if he ever considered following suit.

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Bonus Quote of the Day

September 6, 2018 at 11:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The drama of this op-ed, the drama of the Woodward book, the drama of the Omarosa tapes, the drama of Cohen, the drama of Manafort, the drama of just the three-ring circus that is the White House almost every day, I think that it exhausts the American people. And I know that the founders would regard anything like this as you know, really unhelpful. You don’t run the country as a soap opera.”

— Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Ben Sasse

GOP Senator Slams Trump Attack on Justice Department

September 3, 2018 at 6:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) rebuked President Trump’s latest attack against the Department of Justice for pursuing criminal charges against two Republican congressmen, The Hill reports.

Said Sasse: “The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice – one for the majority party and one for the minority party.”

He added: “These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because of who the President was when the investigations began. Instead of commenting on ongoing investigations and prosecutions, the job of the President of the United States is to defend the Constitution and protect the impartial administration of justice.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Threatens to Vote Against New Attorney General

August 23, 2018 at 9:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said he “would be highly unlikely to vote for any new attorney general nominee if President Trump were to fire Jeff Sessions,” the Washington Examiner reports.

Said Sasse: “I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he’s executing his job, rather than choosing to act as a partisan hack. The attorney general of the United States should not be fired for acting honorably and for being faithful to the rule of law.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Ben Sasse, Jeff Sessions

Sasse Calls Putin a ‘Murderer’

July 16, 2018 at 7:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just hours before Presidnet Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) launched a brutal attack on Twitter calling the Russian president a crook, a liar, and a murderer.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Tempts Trump’s Wrath

July 9, 2018 at 6:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted on two since-vanquished GOP critics in the Senate, Jeff Flake and Bob Corker. But that may soon change. As the ‘never Trump’ faction of the Republican Party dwindles to a lonely few, the Nebraska senator has shown little interest in backing down – leaving him vulnerable to a Trump-fueled primary challenge in 2020, when he’s up for reelection,” Politico reports.

“How Sasse responds — he has a book coming out three weeks before the midterm elections and has quietly launched a new political non-profit group, fueling speculation that he might launch a Hail Mary bid for president rather than seek another term in the Senate — promises to be the next intra-GOP drama.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Bonus Quote of the Day

May 31, 2018 at 12:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“This is dumb. Europe, Canada, and Mexico are not China, and you don’t treat allies the same way you treat opponents. We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression. ‘Make America Great Again’ shouldn’t mean ‘Make America 1929 Again.'”

— Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), quoted by the Washington Post, on President Trump’s decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs.

Filed Under: Economy, Political History Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Writing a Book on Political Polarization

March 22, 2018 at 7:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) is writing a book about the polarization of America, the Lincoln Journal Star reports.

“The book is coming together during the 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hours that Sasse devotes to reading and writing most days.”

It’s going to be titled Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal.

Filed Under: Political Books Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Quits Using Twitter

February 7, 2018 at 1:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) “is known as one of the more prolific Twitter users in Congress, often writing his own tweets himself to chime in on policy issues, crack jokes, and in some cases, rebuke President Donald Trump. But over Christmas weekend last year, Sasse stopped tweeting and has not picked up the phone since,” Business Insider reports.

Sasse sees his sabbatical from Twitter as a healthy decision too, because “there’s just a ton of data about the way social media is designed to create dopamine hits for teenage kids.”

Filed Under: Senate, Technology Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Hannity Hits Back at Sasse

October 13, 2017 at 7:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Fox News host Sean Hannity fanned the flames of his feud with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), saying he has “done nothing” in the Senate and to “call me when you repeal Obamacare loser,” The Hill reports.

He added: “How about standing up to McConnell?”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Ben Sasse

Sasse Declines Heritage Foundation Top Job

August 1, 2017 at 7:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Heritage Foundation has approached one of the Senate’s leading anti-Trump Republicans, Ben Sasse, to gauge his interest in serving as president — an indication the influential conservative think tank may turn away from its supportive posture toward the president,” Politico reports.

“Sasse, who was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2014, has swatted down the overtures from Heritage’s board of trustees.”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Ben Sasse

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