“The York County Republican Committee late Saturday censured U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey following his decision to find former President Donald Trump guilty at the end of the weeklong impeachment trial. Trump was acquitted by a 57-43 Senate vote. The committee in its press release said that Toomey’s voting record over the past four years runs counter to the principles of the GOP and that he’s out of touch with the core beliefs of Pennsylvania Republicans” WITF reports.
“Toomey’s voting record overwhelming favors conservative issues and has a 93 percent rating from the Club for Growth. ‘For the past four years Sen. Toomey sat silently as a hyper-partisan Democrat Congress relentlessly attacked President Trump, impeaching him twice on fabricated charges,’ said state House Representative Dawn Keefer, who proposed the resolution. ‘Given [Toomey’s] recent support of the second unconstitutional impeachment effort against a president who is no longer in office, the York County Republican Committee has reached the limits of its frustration.’ Jeff Piccola, the committee chairman, said it’s ‘so sad that Sen. Toomey has never attempted to reach out to the York County Republican Party to justify his vote to proceed with the House’s impeachment of President Trump with an investigation, evidence or due process.'”