'His entire legacy was wiped out yesterday': Hill Republicans ready to move on from Trump
“Rep. Nancy Mace, a freshman from South Carolina who worked on Trump's 2016 campaign, decried the President's rhetoric for encouraging the violence.
"His entire legacy was wiped out yesterday," said Mace
on CNN's New Day Thursday.
Her fellow South Carolina Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham, echoed Mace's assessment on Thursday, saying Trump's role in inciting the mob "breaks my heart" and is a "self-inflicted wound" that will be a stain on his presidency.”
“Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, a member of the GOP leadership team, suggested that the President's actions and rhetoric were to blame for both costing Republicans their Senate majority and inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol on Wednesday.”
“Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, a staunch Trump ally, said the President does "bear some responsibility" for the riot at the Capitol. "Certainly he bears responsibility for his own actions and his own words," he said, adding that Trump was "pouring fuel on a spark" by attacking Mike Pence Wednesday.
"And then just the call to march down the Capitol, it was inciting," he added. "It was all really awful."