US Republican Sen. Rand Paul, has warned that the end of the Republican Party is around the corner following the second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives in the past week.
During the impeachment proceedings, ten Republican Senators including Wyoming's Rep. Liz Cheney who holds the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership.
Cheney's decision in particular, to vote in support of Trump's impeachment, drew rage from the Republican Party who demands that she resign from her her position. Considering her high ranking position, her disapproval of Trump suggests the beside the Party's vote in support of Biden's certification, Trump no longer has the backing of the Republican.
Now with few days remaining, and a push for Trump's removal by the Senate, a move that would eventually ban him from future elections, Senator Rand Paul is warning that should Republican Senators turn their backs on Trump this last time, that would be the end of the Republican Party.
Senator Paul who made the statement while speaking with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, said Trump has a massive loyal following who are already angry over his loss in the election, and impeachment by the House. He said should Trump be removed and barred from ever seeking election again, there will be mass exodus from the Republican Party.
"I don't often get ask my advice from leadership how they should react. My unsolicited suggestion would be this: they will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit with an impeachment or leadership votes for an impeachment, they will destroy the party," Paul said.
"Impeachment is purely a partisan thing. It's for these moral, 'Oh I'm so much better than you and you're a bad person because I'm so moral' — It's for these kind of people to do this," Paul said.
Paul continued, "I didn't agree with the fight that happened last week, and I voted against overturning the election. But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. But if Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party — a third of the Republicans will leave the party."
"This isn't anymore about the Electoral College. It's about the future of the party and whether you're going to ostracize and ex-communicate President Trump from the party," Paul added. "Well, guess what? Millions of his fans will leave as well."