Republican Senator Banned from GOP Dinner After Backstabbing Trump with Anti-Wall Vote

Twelve Republican senators voted to BLOCK President Trump’s use of emergency powers to declare an emergency at our Southern border, and Republicans all over the country are LIVID.

So much so, that Senator Roy Blunt has been DISINVITED from a local GOP event in Christian County, Missouri because of his vote.

YIKES.

According to the Kansas City Star:

The senior GOP senator from Missouri was one of 12 Republicans who joined Democrats in voting against Trump’s national emergency declaration, a move that has sparked anger within the president’s base. As a Republican sharing the ballot with Trump in 2016, Blunt squeaked out a narrow 3-point win on Trump’s coattails.

His vote on Thursday angered ardent Trump supporters across Missouri, who saw it as a betrayal.

This guy BARELY won his seat.

He’s going to have an uphill battle during re-election. I mean… people are FURIOUS. Especially given the fact that Trump’s support seemed to secure him a very tough election.

“I am so disappointed in you now that I can hardly speak,” wrote Wanda Martens, a member of the Christian County Republican Central Committee, in an email to Blunt’s office. “Why could you not support my president in the emergency declaration? President Trump tried every available means to work the Senate to resolve the border issue and build the much needed wall. He is well within his presidential powers to do this.”

It’s going to take more than a few pretty words to gain back her support… and that’s a problem.

Martens serves as the local party committee’s events chair. She told the senator in her email, which was obtained by The Kansas City Star, that she did not want to see him when the local party holds its Lincoln/Trump Day Dinner on April 6 in Ozark, Missouri, one of the most conservative areas in the state.

Wanda also mentions that she used to be a supporter. No longer.

“Please don’t try to tell me that I don’t understand. I understand completely,” Martens wrote. “I hate it when someone calls you the establishment and that you are part of the swamp, but maybe they were right.”

Martens wrote that she didn’t even call Blunt asking him to support Trump because she was sure he would. She declined to comment on Monday.

Senator Blunt has defended his decision.

Blunt, the only member of Senate Republican leadership to support the resolution, pointed to his opposition to executive overreach during the Obama administration. He also warned that the precedent would enable a future president to use the National Emergencies Act to enact gun control or strict environmental regulations opposed by Republicans.

“The same principle should apply regardless of which party occupies the White House,” Blunt wrote.

Blunt is on a congressional delegation trip and could not be reached for comment Monday. He is the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate and is a senior member of the appropriations committee, which doles out federal funds.

Talk about DRAAAMA.