{"id":49042,"date":"2021-06-14T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=49042"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:34:34","slug":"gop-sc-congressman-reflects-on-life-after-voting-to-impeach-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=49042","title":{"rendered":"GOP SC Congressman Reflects on Life After Voting to Impeach Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/rice-trump-impeach-election\/2021\/06\/13\/88b9d8b4-ca05-11eb-afd0-9726f7ec0ba6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;\u201cIt was very clear to me, I took an oath to defend the Constitution. I didn\u2019t take an oath to defend Donald Trump. What he did was a frontal assault on the Constitution,\u201d he said over coffee at Sunshine Pancake House in Loris, S.C., on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that vote threatens to end his career as he faces several potential primary opponents who strongly support the former president. And that race will have a broader meaning for his party, serving as a test case for whether a solidly conservative lawmaker, long popular in his district and loyal to the party, can be cast out by GOP voters for the lone sin of crossing Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat do you call somebody who votes with Trump 99&nbsp;percent of the time? A traitor,\u201d Rice said with a chuckle recalling a joke he had read several months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punchline or prophecy? His electoral fate will probably provide an answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;\u201cIt was very clear to me, I took an oath to defend the Constitution. I didn\u2019t take an oath to defend Donald Trump. What he did was a frontal assault on the Constitution,\u201d he said over coffee at Sunshine Pancake House in Loris, S.C., on Wednesday. Now that vote threatens to end his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49054,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49042\/revisions\/49054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}