The News & Observer: “In an emergency vote Monday night, North Carolina’s Republican Party voted unanimously to censure U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, just two days after the retiring Republican cast a “guilty” vote in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Burr, 65, is in his third term in the U.S. Senate and served five terms in the U.S. House after being first elected in 1994.
He was one of seven Republican senators to vote guilty in Trump’s impeachment for inciting an insurrection related to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. The 57-43 vote did not meet the 67-vote threshold for conviction in the Senate…
After Monday night’s vote, Burr called it a “truly sad day” for state Republicans.
“My party’s leadership has chosen loyalty to one man over the core principles of the Republican Party and the founders of our great nation,” he said in a statement.”