Oregon Republican Party condemns impeachment, aligns itself with conspiracy theories - OregonLive

On the eve of Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, the Oregon Republican Party issued a statement condemning the 10 Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach President Donald Trump and aligning itself with conspiracy theories about the Jan.

The statement and accompanying resolutions – passed by the party’s executive committee -- were issued by the party establishment itself, not elected lawmakers.

The executive committee of the party includes its six-member leadership team plus congressional district chairs, vice chairs and alternate vice chairs.

“This type of sham process has become the norm for Democrats, but no Republican should support or give in to such an abuse of our Constitutional system,” Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier was quoted in the news release.

The set of resolutions passed by the executive committee also said the transcript of Trump’s speech contradicted Democrats’ claims that he incited the insurrection.

However, they said, it perfectly reflected the growing schism in the Republican party nationally.

A CNN poll conducted by the independent research company SSRS that was released Sunday found that nationally, three in four Republican voters don’t believe Biden legitimately won the election.

Jim Moore, a political scientist at Pacific University in Forest Grove, said the resolutions simply highlight the fact that party leadership in Oregon and nationally is still perfectly aligned with Trump, and that people elected into party positions over the last four years “needed to be Trumpist.”.

Moore said it was interesting that it came on a day when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell publicly said that the mob who stormed the capitol had been “provoked by the president and other powerful people” and that “the mob was fed lies.”.

Moore said party officials are usually much more to the right or the left than the general electorate.

He said that because the Republicans have had such a weak stable of candidates for statewide office, the people who are running tend to reflect more extreme views, such as Jo Rae Perkins, a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theories who won the Republican nomination to run for U.S.