Sen. Pat Toomey has urged his party not to nominate former President Donald Trump as its presidential candidate in 2024, calling his conduct in the aftermath of the 2020 election “completely unacceptable.”
The Pennsylvania Republican voted to convict Trump in the impeachment trial over his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters, fueled by the former president’s misinformation about the election being “stolen” due to widespread voter fraud.
Make no mistake, though, Toomey was an ultra-conservative, cowardly jerk, through-and-through. He never spoke out until he was a lame duck. We in PA were stuck with him for years, and he among others was responsible for not allowing Obama to put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. I called his office every day for weeks because of that, and had to deal with his rude secretary.