GOP Candidates Quiet on Oregon Standoff

“Republican presidential candidates are staying mum as an armed group has taken over part of a national wildlife refuge in rural Oregon — even those who supported the father of at least one of its leaders, who had his own standoff with the government in 2014, and have called for limits on federal control over Western land,” the Washington Post reports.

“There was relative quiet from some more conservative Republican presidential candidates who had previously called for the government to release more of the land it owns. The issue has become a larger one in the GOP primary as states such as Colorado, Idaho and Nevada may play a bigger role in determining a nominee in a large, fractured field.”

The Fix: Why aren’t we calling the Oregon militia terrorists?