Republican moderate refuses to disown Trump over constitution threat
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#66GD8)
Dave Joyce of Ohio, chair of the Republican Governance Group, says he will vote for Trump if he is nominee in 2024
A leader of moderate Republicans in the US House repeatedly refused to condemn Donald Trump on Sunday, even after the former president, running for re-election in 2024, said the US constitution should be terminated" to allow him to return to power.
Whoever the Republicans end up picking, I'll fall in behind" them, Dave Joyce of Ohio told ABC's This Week, adding that he thought Americans did not want to look back to the 2020 election, the subject of Trump's lies about electoral fraud and demand for extra-constitutional action.
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