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   ?The North Carolina Republican Party is saying it will vote   
   later Monday on whether to censure GOP Sen. Richard Burr for   
   voting to convict former President Donald Trump at his Senate   
   impeachment trial.   
      
   Burr was among seven Republicans who crossed the aisle and voted   
   with ?all 50 ?Democrats to convict Trump on the one House charge   
   of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.   
      
   But ?Trump was acquitted because the 57-43 margin fell far short   
   of the 67 votes necessary to convict.   
      
   A spokesman for the North Carolina Republican Party said in a   
   statement late Sunday that the central committee would meet   
   Monday evening for the vote.?   
      
   After the impeachment trial came to a close on Saturday, North   
   Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley blasted Burr.?   
      
   “North Carolina Republicans sent Senator Burr to the United   
   States Senate to uphold the Constitution and his vote today to   
   convict in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking   
   and disappointing,” Whatley said ?in a statement.   
      
   Burr, who announced in 2016 that he would not seek re-election   
   in 2022, defended his decision.   
      
   “The ?p?resident promoted unfounded conspiracy theories to cast   
   doubt on the integrity of a free and fair election because he   
   did not like the results … [and] when the crowd became violent,   
   the President used his office to first inflame the situation   
   instead of immediately calling for an end to the assault?,” he   
   said Saturday.   
      
   ?Burr voted to convict Trump along with Republican Sens. Bill   
   Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of   
   Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat   
   Toomey of Pennsylvania.   
      
   The Louisiana Republican Party censured Cassidy on Saturday.   
      
   “The Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana   
   has unanimously voted to censure Senator Bill Cassidy for his   
   vote cast earlier today to convict former President Donald J.   
   Trump on the impeachment charge,” the party said in a statement   
   late Saturday.   
      
   Murkowski is the only one of the seven who will run for re-   
   election in 2022.   
      
   With Post wires   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/state-gop-may-censure-sen-richard-   
   burr-over-trump-vote/   
        
      
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