Trump says he ‘should have never given’ Sasse his endorsement

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Former President Trump expressed regret over endorsing Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) in the 2020 Nebraska Senate race, saying he “should have never given him the endorsement.” Trump endorsed the Nebraska Republican in September 2019, saying in a tweet at the time that he had “done a wonderful job representing the people of Nebraska.” But Sasse later became one of Trump’s most fervent critics and was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict the former president following the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The Nebraska senator in a 2021 emailed statement condemned Trump’s repeated, baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. “Those lies had consequences, endangering the life of the vice president and bringing us dangerously close to a bloody constitutional crisis,” Sasse said. “Each of these actions are violations of a president’s oath of office.”