- Rice is within the distinctive place of getting voted each towards certifying Biden's win and for Trump's impeachment within the Home
- The South Carolina lawmaker mentioned he nonetheless believes there have been 'actual points with the election'
- 'On reflection I ought to have voted to certify,' Rice mentioned. 'As a result of President Trump was answerable for the assault on the Capitol'
GOP Rep. Tom Rice mentioned Wednesday that he regrets his vote towards certifying two state's electoral votes for President Biden as he now blames former President Trump for the Jan. 6 riot.
Rice is within the distinctive place of getting voted each towards certifying Biden's win and for Trump's impeachment within the Home. 9 different Republicans voted for impeachment and 147 Republicans voted to overturn election leads to Arizona and Pennsylvania, however no different vote overlapped.
The South Carolina lawmaker mentioned he nonetheless believes there have been 'actual points with the election.'
'On reflection I ought to have voted to certify,' Rice advised Politico. 'As a result of President Trump was answerable for the assault on the Capitol.'
'Within the wee hours of that disgraceful evening, whereas ready for the Capitol of our nice nation to be secured, I knew I ought to vote to certify. However as a result of I had made a public announcement of my intent to object, I didn't wish to return on my phrase. So yeah, I remorse my vote to object.'
Rice eviscerated the previous president who he is typically sought to tie himself with carefully. He mentioned that Trump watched 'with pleasure' from the protection of the White Home as his supporters breached Capitol safety and 'did nothing to cease it' regardless of pleas from family and friends to look publicly and name off the riot.
Rice famous that 5 died within the chaos and a whole lot of others have been injured, as Vice President Mike Pence and his household have been whisked away to security.
'There was a coward in that equation,' Rice mentioned. 'But it surely wasn't Mike Pence.'
However Rice has typically touted his conservative voting document, voting with Trump 94 p.c of the time, however soured on the previous president within the days because the assault.
'He has not visited the injured and grieving. He has not provided condolences. Yesterday in a press briefing on the border, he mentioned his feedback have been 'completely applicable," he mentioned on the time of his vote to question.
'I've backed this President by thick and skinny for 4 years. I campaigned for him and voted for him twice. However, this utter failure is inexcusable.'
Rice additionally in contrast Trump to a dictator in a June interview.
'I've backed this President by thick and skinny for 4 years. I campaigned for him and voted for him twice. However, this utter failure is inexcusable.'
Greater than 700 individuals have been charged in connection to the riot and 65 have been sentenced.
Nonetheless, Trump introduced this week he'll maintain a information convention on the one-year anniversary of the riot. He nonetheless claims election fraud was guilty for his losses is in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
'Why is not the [House] Unselect Committee of extremely partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January sixth protest, which was the rigged Presidential Election of 2020?' Trump requested in an emailed assertion. 'Does anyone discover that they wish to keep as far-off from that subject as potential, the numbers do not work for them, and even come shut. The one factor they will do just isn't speak about it.'
'The rebel befell on November third, it was the whole unarmed protest of the rigged election that befell on January sixth,' Trump claimed.