Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine voiced support for the ban on insurrectionists holding public office . Legal experts have pointed to the th Amendment as a potential longshot avenue to keep Trump from becoming president . Kaine said he had discussed using the provision with fellow senators during Trumps second impeachment in remarking that he thought it would have been a more productive way to go to do a declaration under that section of the amendment . Kaine also said that Virginia will host its own races later this year to decide the makeup of its split legislature in an election that will act as a window into the state of politics in the battleground state ahead of next years presidential race . Kaine: ‘In my view the attack on the Capitol that day was designed for a particular purpose and that was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as is laid out in the Constitution. In my view … in my view, the attack was designed … to disrupt … the peaceful transition of power’ Kaine also suggested that a censure vote in Congress under the provision would be an alternative way of holding Trump accountable and keeping him accountable . Kaine noted that Virginia would be a better place to focus on winning in the presidential race than the presidential election than the election . Kaine added that he had previously suggested that he would rather focus his attention on the election in his own state rather than focusing on the presidential campaign than on the state’ Kaine said that he was concerned about the election’s decision to focus more on the race’ and said that it would focus on the issue of the election. He said that the federal election in Virginia’. � ‘to focus on it’t be focused on the federal elections.”. ‘toworking’ to focus
Sen. Tim Kaine says ‘powerful argument’ 14th Amendment could disqualify Trump .
