The Democratic party threatens GOP senators
with announcements before the impeachment vote
A prominent liberal super PAC on Friday will launch a billboard campaign targeting several GOP senators urging them to vote to convict former President Trump in his impeachment trial.
American Bridge 21st Century, through its nonprofit affiliate group Bridge Project, will send digital ads and texts urging constituents of GOP senators to call their offices and urge them to vote to convict Trump over his alleged role inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
The plans, shared exclusively with Capitol Hill , will target nine GOP senators: Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Richard Burr (N.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Pat Toomey (Pa.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Mitt Romney (Utah), Richard Shelby (Ala.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.).
In a billboard specifically targeting Murkowski, who has become one among Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, the super PAC begins by saying, “the Trump-led assault on enforcement and our Capitol can't be forgotten” because it shows footage of rioters breaking into the building.
The 16-second video continues, “Our senators got to do their jobs by holding Trump in charge of this violent January 6th insurrection.”
The ad then gives viewers the telephone number for Murkowski’s Washington, D.C., office, urging her constituents to “tell her she must convict Trump.”
In a statement shared with Capitol Hill , American Bridge President Bradley Beychok said, “To protect our democracy and our rule of law, Donald Trump must be held accountable.”
Beychok added, “We urge Republican Senators to for once put their country before their party and hold Trump accountable therefore the insurrection we saw on Epiphany never happens again.”
Murkowski in the week told reporters amid House impeachment managers’ arguments before the Senate that the Democrats “are making a really strong case for a timeline that laid out very clearly the words that were used, when he [Trump] used them, how he wont to really build the anger, the violence that we saw here during this Capitol.”
On Wednesday, Murkowski said after the second day of the impeachment trial, “After the American public sees the complete story laid out here ... I don’t see how Donald Trump might be reelected to the presidency again.”
Meanwhile, Romney is viewed as a possible choose favor of conviction, as he was the sole Republican senator to vote to get rid of Trump from office after his first impeachment trial last year.
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Other moderate Republicans have criticized Trump for repeatedly making unsupported claims of a "rigged" election, though it's unclear if each of them are going to be moved to cross party lines and join Democrats in voting to convict Trump.
After Democrats bound up their arguments Thursday, Trump’s team took center stage Friday, largely focusing its defense on the claim that Trump’s remarks leading up to the mob attack were protected by the primary Amendment.
Democrats would wish 17 GOP senators to vote with them to convict Trump, an outcome widely considered unlikely
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