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Martin Pengelly in New York

Republican moderate refuses to disown Trump over constitution threat

Donald Trump announces he is running for president at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last month.
Donald Trump announces he is running for president at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last month. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

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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