Republicans are ‘terrified’ but the party must ‘get a grip on itself’

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Publish Date: 8:40 - 07 October 2019
TEHRAN, oct 7_American former General Colin Powell says the Republican Party “needs to get a grip on itself” amid the Ukraine scandal engulfing the administration of US President Donald Trump.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_"The Republican party has got to get a grip on itself," Powell told a crowd at The Jefferson Series, an event in New Albany, Ohio, on Monday. "Republican leaders and members of the Congress, both Senate and the House, are holding back because they're terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out."

The former secretary of state, who calls himself a “moderate Republican,” added that the US foreign policy is "in shambles right now."

"I see things happening that are hard to understand," he said.

Trump has apparently pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Jo Biden, his potential opponent for the 2020 presidential election, warning that he would not give Ukraine the promised military aid in case he refused.

Republicans have shown “blind partisan loyalty” to Trump, according to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy.

"This entire country should be scared that at a moment when we need patriots, what we are getting is blind partisan loyalty," Murphy said in an interview on "Meet the Press."

Source: presstv

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