MADISON – First, he was booed and jeered. Then, more than a third of Wisconsin Republicans gathered at their state convention Saturday voted to oust him. But Robin Vos survived. Again.
Wisconsin's Assembly speaker remains at the center of the fight within the state Republican Party over the false claims of voter fraud successfully deployed by former President Donald Trump to build doubt over his legitimate election loss in 2020.
And on Saturday, he withstood a second attempt in as many years to call for his removal — a punishment Republican activists want to level for refusing to rescind the state's 10 Electoral College votes cast for President Joe Biden.
About 36% of convention delegates voted to approve a resolution calling for Vos to resign or be removed from his position as speaker. Forty percent supported a resolution to decertify the 2020 election, which has been deemed by legal scholars and constitutional attorneys to be impossible even as Trump continues to say otherwise.
The convention resolutions are symbolic votes with no practical impact.
The vote to oust Vos came hours after he had enraged much of the convention audience by declaring again that the 2020 election was over.
"I am going to say something that I'm sorry many of you might not want to hear, but we have no ability to decertify the election and go back and nullify it — we do not,"...
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