2020 presidential candidate Sen. Michael Bennet claimed that some of his Republican colleagues have privately rebuked President Trump’s actions.
Bennet, who was not on the stage at last week’s Democratic primary debate, made the admission while talking about his colleagues’ response to the ongoing impeachment investigation during a Monday morning appearance on CNN.
“I’m not going to ask you to break any confidence you would have with them but I’m curious. Are you hearing more private expressions of support for removing this president than we hear publicly from the Republican side?” Jim Sciutto asked.
The Colorado senator said that he hasn’t heard private expressions of support for impeachment, but he has heard “people saying they’re horrified by the president’s behavior.”
“They’re horrified that he invited Ukraine to interfere in our elections; they’re horrified that the White House chief of staff admitted that it was a quid pro quo. They’re particularly horrified by what president did in northern Syria by abandoning the Kurds there,” Bennet went on. “We’ve had enough of this guy, and I do think there are Republicans in the Senate who are getting awfully tired of having to defend him.”
As Bennet referenced, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted that there was a quid pro quo agreement between the United States and Ukraine on Thursday. Mulvaney later backtracked on the comments and accused the media of manipulating what he said.
