Dan Judy’s comments to Talking Points Memo regarding calls for unity after the attack on the Capitol:
Dan Judy, Vice President of North Star Opinion Research, a consultancy for Republican candidates, told TPM that the “unity” pushers can be put in two categories. The first, Republicans who opposed Trump’s rhetoric on election fraud and voted to uphold the Electoral College certification, have at least a “credible and morally consistent argument” when they say that an impeachment would further rip apart the country, he said.
Not so for the other Republicans, those that fed into and amplified Trump’s conspiracy theories, he added.
“Calls for unity from them with no acknowledgement of the President’s part in this simply have no credibility beyond the hardest-core Trump base,” he said.
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