Top Republican leaders remain silent after Trump's words calling for overturning the Constitution

MADRID, 5 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The main Republican leaders have not yet ruled on the latest controversial statements by the former president of the United States and candidate of the party for the 2024 elections, Donald Trump, who this weekend called for the "rescission" of the Constitution to be able to be reinstated in office, once again influencing his unfounded theories of electoral fraud.

At the moment there is no news from the Republican leaders in Congress -Mitch McConnell in the Senate and Kevin McCarthy in the House of Representatives-, nor from the Republican National Committee, so it must have been other party leaders with less weight who have had to answer for the latest bravado of the de facto leader that Trump has become.

"Well, obviously, I don't support that," Rep.-elect Mike Lawler, who has criticized Trump for pressing his grievances about the 2020 election, said on CNN. "He would do well to focus on the future, if he's going to run again. new for president", has said.

For his part, former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, has regretted that this type of statement has become a "constant" and has questioned "the companies" of a Trump, who already asked Pence at the end of his mandate to bypass the Constitution to annul the electoral results.

Others, such as representative Mike Turner, have asserted that they do not agree with these statements by the former president of the United States and have pointed out that "I am sure that people will take into account statements like this when evaluating a candidate", referring to the primary process. of the party

Meanwhile, one of his main critics within the party, Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans who are part of the commission, has valued that these types of statements delegitimize Trump to be a candidate again in 2024. parliamentarian investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6.

"With the former president calling for the overthrow of the Constitution, not a single conservative can legitimately support him, and not a single supporter can call themselves a conservative. This is insane. Trump hates the Constitution," Kinzinger wrote on Twitter, leaving Congress this legislature.