“No conservative can legitimately support him, and not a single supporter can be called a conservative.” Kinzinger said. “This is madness.”

Kinzinger, like Cheney, is a frequent critic of Trump, who is leaving Congress in January. Other Republicans on Sunday also criticized the idea of ​​setting aside the Constitution, but declined to say whether they would vote for Trump again after the statement.

“It certainly does not agree with the oath we all take,” said the deputy. Mike Turner (R-Ohio). “I strongly disagree with the statement made by Trump.”

But Turner, speaking with host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” refrained from saying Trump’s remarks were “incompetent” when it comes to his presidential candidacy.

“There is a political process that needs to move forward,” Turner said.

On his own social media platform Saturday morning, Trump falsely said there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and argued that unprecedented measures were called for, therefore, to restore him to office.

“Colossal fraud of this kind and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those of the Constitution,” Trump wrote.

The Biden administration on Saturday condemned Trump’s statementcalling it “a curse on the soul of our nation”.

Under pressure from host George Stephanopoulos over whether he could support someone who proposed suspending the constitution, Rep. Dave Joyce He (R-Ohio) said on ABC’s “This Week” that he would “support whoever the Republican nominee is.”

“He says a lot of things,” Joyce said of Trump, adding that Trump does not have the power to suspend the Constitution. “You have to take it in context… I really can’t chase after every single one of these crazy statements that come out — from any of these candidates.”

Both Joyce and Representative-elect Mike Lawler (R-NY) said they don’t think voters want to look “back,” after Republicans won an unexpectedly narrow majority in the House of Representatives last month.

“I certainly don’t endorse that language,” Lawler said of Trump’s constitutional “termination” of CNN’s “State of the Union.” He urged Trump to look to the future as Trump seeks the presidency again.

Democrats condemned Trump’s remarks and also noted that they reflect a larger problem within the Republican Party.

“It was a strange statement, but the Republicans need to work out their issues with the former president,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the newly elected House Democratic leader, said Sunday on “This Week.”

Jeffries said he did not consider Trump’s statement unexpected.

“Suspending the constitution is an unusual step, but we are used to the extraordinary statements made by the former president.”

re / count. David Cicilline (DRI) said Trump has “become like the crazy uncle at Mar-a-Lago, saying things that make no sense in America’s democracy.”

Speaking on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Cicilline said Trump’s remarks are the latest in a long line of troubling remarks that undermine democracy.

“It is the latest, but very visible, attack by the former president,” he said.

Some Democrats specifically pointed to the relatively quiet reaction from across the aisle. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer“Everyone should ‘condemn’ Trump’s attack on democracy,” he said, for example. calls him “out of control.”

re / count. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who was a leading figure in Trump’s first impeachment trial, also called on “constitutional conservatives” not to speak out against Trump.

“I think a ‘constitutional conservative’ is someone who is conservative in his support of the constitution…when it is inconvenient,” Schiff wrote on Twitter.

re / count. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is seeking to become the next Speaker of the House, was not asked about Trump’s remarks in his appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” but was sympathetic to the core assertions at the heart of Trump’s attack: his accusation that Big Tech has worked to censor Reports of misdeeds by Hunter Biden, son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.

Think about the timeline of when this was right before the election, just a few weeks. And remember how close this election was.

Trump also continued to receive some criticism on Sunday about it Dinner late last month With anti-Semitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, better known as Kanye West. “This is terrible,” Turner said, adding that he was amazed that in 2022, even anti-Semitism still had to be condemned.

“We need to make it clear that we reject anti-Semitism from the left, right and center,” former Vice President Mike Pence said on “Fox News Sunday.” The question of whether the dinner is “unqualified,” Pence said, is “for the American people.”

Republican lawmakers mostly refused to condemn Trump for the meeting, even if they opposed the dinner itself. Since then, Yi has made anti-Semitic comments, drawing additional fire from some Republicans.

Pence has previously said Trump should I apologize for meeting Fuentes.

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally during his presidency, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he does not believe Trump’s refusal to condemn antisemitic behavior will become “systematic.”

“I think he probably understands that he’s going too far,” Netanyahu said.