“I’m ok, more sad that someone would be willing to choose a man over family,” he said on Twitter. The letter was written by family members including Kinzinger’s cousin Karen Otto, who told the Times that she hoped the congressman would be “shunned.”AD“It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you,” the letter continued. Most of the seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump have also faced calls for censure from fellow Republicans in their respective states in recent days. ADADIn addition to voting to impeach Trump, Kinzinger this month launched the Country 1st PAC in an effort to push the GOP toward a more moderate platform and away from Trump’s polarizing politics. Following his censure on Monday, Burr echoed Kinzinger’s lament that the former president’s supporters have abandoned traditional conservative values.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2021 09:50 UTC