Your generation is going to have a big calling. Both Sasse and Trump are supported by about four out of five Nebraska Republicans. Q: The Senate Intelligence Committee, of which you are a member, holds many of its hearings behind closed doors. You’re graduating in your living room and you’re having a senator come talk to you about some dude named Joe Exotic? Back in the day, when we were a lot fitter than you people are, we used to have to climb a rope all the way up to the ceiling of the gym all the time.
But don’t get him wrong: Sasse would really, really like to be talking about other things. It’s entirely understandable why the Nebraska senator, a member of the Intelligence Committee, is late. Sasse's is a place where I feel appreciated, cared for, and well-treated. And why he might need a drink. And surely the president wouldn’t have endorsed Sasse unless Sasse had promised to endorse the president in 2020? No one learns a thing about the nominee, and the Constitution is relegated to an afterthought. In June, after Trump had held a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki at which he accepted Putin’s denial—contradicted by U.S. intelligence agencies and the available evidence—that Russia was not behind the hacking of DNC emails in 2016, Sasse delivered a blistering speech on the Senate floor. Sasse says he is “really grateful for the fact that the president has completely kept his word” about judicial nominees, and that Elizabeth Warren’s socialism and majoritarian politics “would completely baffle the Founders.”. They have quibbles and disagreements, here and there. But most are frustrated and exhausted. Sasse is more than willing to acknowledge that Democrats are often crying wolf about the president, but he still feels compelled to say something, even in the middle of a Republican primary, when he believes the president is actually behaving like a wolf. The Trump Administration’s Obamacare Punt, Meghan and Harry Are Embarrassing Themselves, ‘Why Bother?’: Pelosi Suggests Biden Skip Presidential Debates, Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges, FBI Agent on Flynn Case Believed Prosecution Was Used by Mueller Team to ‘Get Trump’, Ron Paul Appears to Suffer Stroke during Live Zoom Session, Admitted to Hospital for ‘Precautionary Reasons’, Margaret Atwood Contradicts Herself on Whether Judge Barrett’s Religious Group Inspired, Trump Has Reportedly Chosen Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat, A Just Decision Not to File Homicide Charges in the Tragic Breonna Taylor Case. In case you haven’t noticed, if you haven’t been reading, and you should be, because you’ve got time on your hands: Scientists just discovered a black hole that’s four times the size of our sun and it’s apparently in a system that’s visible to the naked eye. MITT ROMNEY'S BIG IDEA: PREVENT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE FROM GOING BANKRUPT “A new Fairness Doctrine for the Internet is going to harm conservatism badly in the long term.”, Sasse also thinks he has a role to play promoting civics, serving on the Intelligence Committee, and debating issues about the future of work, such as universal basic income, a policy he fears is on the way but strongly opposes because it would balloon entitlements and make Americans even “lonelier and more purposeless.”, “I just don’t really want to spend very much of my time on Donald Trump,” Sasse tells me in his Senate office on September 24. That’s what your parents and teachers tried to instill in you and that’s what makes our state great and that’s what’s going to pull us through this thing. But as he gets up to leave at the end of our interview, I want to be sure I heard him correctly that he will not endorse any candidate in any race between now and November 2020. That question has been raised by many of his critics, but especially by those who say the Nebraska senator is a show horse, not a legislative workhorse. It’s the end of your high school but we call it commencement, which means beginning. I think we should be coming at it from lots of different sides,” Sasse says of protecting the right to life. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! My dad was a gym teacher. “Our relationship is surprisingly, I think given public perceptions, I think surprisingly amiable.”, The Trump-Ukraine scandal, however, threatens to undo the Trump–Sasse rapprochement. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker retired. “This should be a time for all Americans to stand together against what Putin’s doing.

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In 2016, Sasse cast his vote in the presidential race for Mike Pence, not Donald Trump. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! They know the Senate is dysfunctional, and they wish it weren’t. Legal Statement.
Some may believe that the ability to watch hearings gives the public a window to the legislative process. When we bring in experts, Senators ask actual questions of them and listen to their answers, instead of flogging them for the cameras or trying to outsmart them. Sasse, after all, ran his 2014 campaign against establishment Republicans for failing to provide leadership. Support for Republicans has declined in the suburbs during Trump’s presidency, and it’s not hard to imagine scenarios in which a single electoral vote would make the difference between a Trump victory and an Electoral College tie in 2020, or the difference between a tie and a Trump loss. Sasse: The dirty little secret of so many headline-grabbing political moments these days is that they’re about as “authentic” as reality television. Up and down the ticket, including the presidential race? Here’s what I’m trying to say: There will always be money to be made in psychology. “When I was running, I actually thought that most Republicans believed in free-market stuff,” Sasse replies. Why not? We acted from a position of weakness. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes.