Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse says he often considers leaving GOP

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday that neither his Republican Party nor the Democrats stand for “very much more than being anti” and that he often thinks about becoming an independent.

The first-term senator, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, told CNN’s “State of the Union” he considers himself “an independent conservative who happens to caucus with the Republicans.”

He said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was nonetheless “committed to the party of Lincoln and Reagan as long as we can try to reform it and get it back to being a party that’s about the universal dignity of all Americans and the First Amendment as the beating heart of American life.”