Sen. Roy Blunt Says Trump Should Finish Presidency, Doubts Impeachment Would Happen Before Trump Leaves Office
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) speaks during a news conference following the weekly meeting with the Senate Republican caucus at the U.S. Capitol on December 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier today McConnell said the Electoral College has spoken and congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on his victory. Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt rejected calls for President Donald Trump to resign on Sunday. The Republican senator insists that Trump should complete his presidency in the last 10 days.

Blunt added that the resignation would be entirely up to Trump. However, Blunt added that he thinks what the president should do is to finish the last 10 days remaining in his presidential term, according to a Business Insider report.

Blunt did not join his fellow Missourian Republican senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz of Texas in challenging Arizona or Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.

Meanwhile, he also said that he would not joint fellow Republican senators Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on calling Trump to submit his resignation.

Despite believing that Trump should not resign from his post, Blunt called the president's recent actions as reckless.

"I think the president's decisions and his actions that day and leading up to that day on this topic were clearly reckless," Blunt was quoted on a Kansas City report.

Blunt said that this is a very tragic day for the country and the president had some involvement in that.

The Republican senator also voiced out his skepticism that impeaching Trump would take place before Jan. 20 happen.

Blunt further statements that Democratic leaders supporting impeachment proceeding is just another political point trying to be made, according to a Forbes report.

The Missourian senator advised Trump that he should be very careful over the next 10 days, saying that his behavior is what you would expect from the leader of the greatest country in the world.

Blunt also condemned the violence the day of the Capitol breach. He said that there is not justification for violence and destruction, adding that it has to stop now and it is not how the U.S. is as a nation.

Trump Impeachment

More Republicans call for Trump to stand down. However, more Republican lawmakers are declining to support Democratic efforts to impeach him.

Democrats will introduce a motion to the House of Representatives, calling on Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump from the office, following the Capitol's breach and riot that took place, according to Financial Times report.

"As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetuated by this president is intensified and so is the immediate need for action," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was quoted on a report.

Many Republicans said that they did not think impeachment was not the best way to hold Trump accountable.

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey said that the best way for the country for Trump to resign and go away as soon as possible.

Toomey doubted it possible to impeach Trump in the limited time he has left in the office.

This was supported by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who said that he did not want impeachment proceedings to get in the way of president-elect Joe Biden's first few months in the office.

Trump has already conceded that Biden would be the U.S. president this month. He also condemned the attack at the Capitol Hill.