Kinzinger bashes Trump: 'Suffocated the soul of the Republican Party'

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) hammered Donald Trump on Thursday night, accusing the former president of threatening American democracy and destroying the Republican Party as he knew it.

In a primetime speech delivered shortly before Vice President Harris took the stage, Kinzinger denounced Trump's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and accused his supporters in the GOP of abandoning the basic tenets of conservatism that had guided the party for decades before Trump's arrival.