A leading #NeverTrump Republican senator is expected to resign his seat, according to a report.
The new report comes with about a month to go before crucial midterm elections determine whether President Joe Biden will be reduced to a powerless lame-duck President or not.
Conservative Brief reported that Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who is known to be a major opponent of former President Donald Trump, will accept a job as a president of the University of Florida in the near future citing reports from Politico.
“The Nebraska governor would then appoint a replacement for Sasse under state law. The second-term Sasse made a name for himself as a consistent Trump critic in Congress as well as a reliable conservative vote,” Politico wrote.
BREAKING: The University of Florida announced that Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is the lone finalist to be the school’s next president. https://t.co/C77X15ynrZ
— Tampa Bay Times (@TB_Times) October 6, 2022
In May, Trump lambasted the Nebraska RINO and said it was a mistake to endorse him. “He’s bad news, Ben Sasse,” Trump said during a tele-rally. “He begged for my endorsement, the day after he started hitting me and we hit much harder than he knows how to hit.”
Sasse was part of a team of Republican turncoats and also Democrat senators that entered into a corrupt arrangement on reforms to the Electoral Count Act.
It was revealed on Wednesday that the team has actually settled on reforms on the 1887 law that regulates exactly how Electoral College ballots are counted, which came under scrutiny after the 2020 governmental election, according to NPR.
A press release from the legislators stated that the team was led by “Republican” Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The team consisted of Republican Sens. Sasse, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Shelley Moore Capito, Todd Youthful, as well as Lindsey Graham, in addition to Democrat Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Warner, Chris Murphy, Ben Cardin as well as Chris Coons, according to Conservative Brief.
“From the beginning, our bipartisan group has shared a vision of drafting legislation to fix the flaws of the archaic and ambiguous Electoral Count Act of 1887,” they said.
“Through numerous meetings and debates among our colleagues as well as conversations with a wide variety of election experts and legal scholars, we have developed legislation that establishes clear guidelines for our system of certifying and counting electoral votes for President and Vice President. We urge our colleagues in both parties to support these simple, commonsense reforms.”
The new development has some questioning how Sasse leading The University of Florida will factor into Florida’s Republican politics currently led by Governor Ron DeSantis.
