Sen. Ben Sasse, the Tea Party-backed junior senator from Nebraska, went on a Twitter tirade against Donald Trump on Sunday night, pressing him to answer questions on healthcare, guns, taxes and his marital infidelity.
The storm of tweets took place exactly one week from the Iowa caucuses amid new polls showing Trump with a sizable lead over Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., far behind in third place.
Sasse decided to take a break from watching the Carolina Panthers wallop the Arizona Cardinals to toss some questions at the GOP presidential frontrunner.
“Folks like DT but aren’t sure what he believes,” Sasse summed up before firing off a barrage of questions.
He pressed Trump on his past support for a single-payer healthcare system and asked if he changed his mind and why he changed.
.@realDonaldTrump
Questn1. You said you want single-payor “govt pays4everyone” HCare. If that isnt your position now when did it change?Why?— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) January 25, 2016
He asked Trump about his previous statement that he “hates the concepts of guns” and why a few years ago he proposed a $6 trillion tax hike.
.@realDonaldTrump
Q3: A few yrs ago u proposed $6trillion tax hike. Still want to do that? Agree w/ Biden that higher taxes=more patriotism?— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) January 25, 2016
Sasse hit Trump with a double whammy on why he boasted of having many extramarital affairs without feeling the need to ask God for forgiveness.
.@realDonaldTrump
Q4: You brag abt many affairs w/ married women. Have you repented? To harmed children & spouses? Do you think it matters?— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) January 25, 2016
The senator also said he’s worried that Trump would be an autocratic president and make mincemeat out of the Constitution, similar to President Obama’s series of executive actions that circumvented Congress over the past four years.
.@realDonaldTrump
…as tho 1 man shld “run America.”
Questn5: Will you commit to rolling back Exec power & undoing Obama unilateral habit?— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) January 25, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump
Do you agree that exec unilateralism is very bad? Because you talk A LOT about “running the country” as though… (cont)— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) January 25, 2016
It isn’t the first time Sasse has attacked Trump. In December, Sasse delivered a 17-minute floor speech in which, without naming Trump, he argued that Americans are turning to demagogues because their current leadership in Washington has a terrible record on fighting terror.
Although he is a relatively new voice in the Senate, his star is rising. He was selected as a last-minute replacement for former Vice President Dick Cheney at the “First in the Nation Presidential Town Hall” in Nashua on Friday.
