Out of all of the Republicans in Congress, exactly one took his oath of office seriously–Mitt Romney. Romney’s vote can’t have been inspired by electoral self-interest, and the ostracism that will follow won’t be worth the settlement of any personal scores with Trump, so there is no reason to doubt that he was acting purely out of a sense of duty. Will he pay a price for it at the ballot box?
Probably not, for the following reasons:
1. He has five years left in his term;
2. At his age, he may not run again;
3. Even if he does run, the Mormons in Utah have never embraced Trump the way evangelicals and reactionary Catholics have. His personal morality is still an issue with them. I suspect many of them will approve of Romney’s vote. As a result, even if a Trumpian hack runs against him in a primary in 2024, I doubt he can be beaten.