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HOUSE VOTES TO IMPEACH: Democracy NC Calls on Senators to #DoYourDuty, Remove Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. (1/13/2021)— The U.S. House voted, 232-197, to impeach President Donald Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection. The vote came one week after Trump rallied his followers to incite a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to thwart confirmation of the 2020 presidential election. Ten House Republicans joined Democrats for Wednesday’s vote, making Trump the first leader in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

Democracy North Carolina’s Executive Director Tomas Lopez praised the bipartisan vote and called on the Senate to “act quickly” to remove Trump from office.

“Today’s bipartisan U.S. House vote to impeach President Trump is an acknowledgement that the nation’s leaders can no longer look the other way when our democracy, our institutions, and our people are under attack. We now call on the U.S. Senate — including Sens. Burr and Tillis — to act quickly to convict the president, disqualify him from future office and send a strong message that anyone who values cowardly acts of white supremacist violence over fair votes and unfettered power over the will of the people will not be allowed to prevail.”

 

“We now call on the U.S. Senate...to act quickly to convict the president, disqualify him from future office and send a strong message that anyone who values cowardly acts of white supremacist violence over fair votes and unfettered power over the will of the people will not be allowed to prevail.” –Tomas Lopez, Democracy NC

The process now heads to a trial in the U.S. Senate, where many Senators, including North Carolina’s own Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, are reported to be undecided about whether to convict the president of inciting this violent attack on our country, our democracy, and our people, and remove him from office.

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Democracy North Carolina is a statewide nonpartisan organization that uses research, organizing, and advocacy to increase civic participation, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and remove systemic barriers to voting and serving in elected office. Learn more at democracync.org.

ACT NOW: Tell Sens. Burr and Tillis to defend our democracy and remove Trump from office permanently. 

 

TAKE ACTION

We call on NC senator’s to #DoYourDuty – Remove Trump NOW

Tell the Senate: #DoYourDuty

Send a message to N.C. Sens. Burr and Tillis and demand they defend our democracy by fully impeaching Trump.

While Trump’s term comes to an end next week with the inauguration of a new president, there remain important reasons the Senate can and must still take immediate action.

  • Combined with a second impeachment, a Senate conviction can also be  accompanied by a vote to also disqualify Trump from holding future office— an appropriate additional remedy given this flagrant and sustained effort to overturn a free and fair election.
  • Swift bipartisan action by the Senate also sends a strong message to current and prospective politicians from any party that those who value violence over votes and power over the will of the people will not prevail.
  • Put an end to the false equivalency between the violent insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and the movement for Black Lives.

North Carolinians must recognize the important history white supremacist attacks on local governance play in the current attempts to erode our political power and question fair votes. Your actions today in support of a Senate conviction of the outgoing president will move us one step closer to a government that works for all of us.