GOP Lawmaker Compares Party to the Titanic
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) compared the Republican Party to the Titanic amid an internal battle surrounding Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and the push to oust her from her GOP leadership position, The Hill reports.
Said Kinzinger: “Right now, it’s basically the Titanic. We’re like, you know, in this in the middle of this slow sink, we have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. And meanwhile, as I’ve said, you know, Donald Trump’s running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”
House GOP Not Told About Bad Trump Polling Data
Washington Post: “When staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee rose to explain the party’s latest polling in core battleground districts, they left out a key finding about Trump’s weakness, declining to divulge the information even when directly questioned about Trump’s support by a member of Congress.”
“Trump’s unfavorable ratings were 15 points higher than his favorable ones in the core districts, according to the full polling results… Nearly twice as many voters had a strongly unfavorable view of the former president as had a strongly favorable one.”
For members: Trump’s Strength Is His Lack of Loyalty.
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“We had the worst four years we’ve had, ever, in the Republican Party.”
— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), in an interview with NBC News, noting Republicans lost control of the House, the Senate and the White House.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Mitch McConnell has some personal animus toward Democrats that ought not be. We are one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let’s operate like that. This Republican Party is losing its way on all fronts, and Mitch McConnell is contributing to that in a big way.”
— Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), in a CNN interview.
Quote of the Day
“It just bothers me that you have to swear fealty to the Dear Leader or get kicked out of the party. It doesn’t make any sense.”
— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), in an NBC News interview, on Republicans still making Donald Trump the face of the party.
The Danger of the GOP Embracing the Big Lie
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Warren Doesn’t Buy the GOP-Big Business Rift
“Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), long one of Congress’s fiercest critics of corporate power and economic inequality, is skeptical of her Republican colleagues’ newfound desire to battle big business,” the HuffPost reports.
Said Warren: “Actions speak louder than words. And for 40 years, the driving principle of the Republican Party in Washington has been to help the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful. And that’s not an abstract proposition. They’ve done it over and over.”
Virginia GOP Candidates: ‘Trumpy, Trumpier, Trumpiest’
New York Times: “One candidate brands himself a ‘conservative outlaw.’ Another boasts of her bipartisan censure by the State Senate for calling the Capitol rioters ‘patriots.’ A third, asked about Dominion voting machines — the subject of egregious conspiracy theories on the right — called them ‘the most important issue’ of the campaign.”
“These are not fringe candidates for the Republican nomination for Virginia governor.”
“They are three of the leading contenders in a race that in many ways embodies the decade-long meltdown of Republican power in Virginia, a once-purple state that has gyrated more decisively toward Democrats than perhaps any in the country.”
For members: We’ll Know a Lot More About the GOP After Saturday
Graham Says GOP Can’t Go On Without Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that the Republican Party can’t grow without embracing former President Donald Trump.
Said Graham: “Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no.”
He added: “I’ve always liked Liz Cheney, but she’s made a determination that the Republican Party can’t grow with President Trump. I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.”
Axios: “Republican officials are rendering an unequivocal verdict: They want to cement former President Trump’s politics and policies into the foundation of the GOP for many years to come.”
How Trump Is Hunting Down the GOP’s Leading Families
“In the civil war between Donald Trump and the GOP’s waning establishment, no Republican has crossed the former president and come out ahead. Yet as Rep. Liz Cheney’s likely ouster from House leadership lays bare, Trump has reserved a special fury for the scions of the GOP’s leading families in his attempt to exercise full dominion over the Republican Party,” Politico reports.
“Whether it’s the Cheneys, the Bushes or the lesser bloodlines — such as the Romneys or the Murkowskis — Trump has been relentless in his efforts to force them to bend the knee. Even Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain — who herself has never run for office — has been knocked down, censured by Trump allies who run the state Republican Party in Arizona. It’s the clearest sign that the modern Republican Party hasn’t just broken with its traditionalist past. It’s shredding every vestige of it.”
Cheney Forces House Republicans to Choose the Lie
Susan Glasser: “The striking difference is that, this time, Liz Cheney has chosen to fight him on it. If Trump does manage to reinvent ‘the Big Lie’ in service of his own corrupt ends, Cheney will at least have forced members of her party into admitting, on the record, that they are making a choice between truth and Trump’s untruth—and choosing the latter.”
“There is no hope among her supporters and advisers that she will win the fight, when the House Republican Conference votes, likely next week, to boot her. Instead, there is a recognition that Cheney has finally decided to do what most of the Trump skeptics within the Party were reluctant to for four years: publicly challenge not only Trump’s lies but the enablers within the G.O.P. who give his lies such power.”
Elise Stefanik Pledges Allegiance to Trump
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), campaigning to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the Republican Party’s No. 3 leader in the House for calling out President Donald Trump’s election lies, pitched herself as an unshakable ally of the former president on Thursday, calling him the “strongest supporter of any president when it comes to standing up for the Constitution,” the New York Times reports.
Washington Post: Stefanik defends election falsehoods told on January 6.
How the White House Views the Republican Party
Playbook: “They see a divided opposition gradually coalescing around devotion to an former president known primarily for one thing these days: lying about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. And with the GOP mostly absent from any actual debate about policy, the White House believes it has the upper hand and can easily define Republicans as handmaidens to the wealthy and corporate America.”
“Biden knows he has the advantage right now and he’s not giving it up, despite the occasional bromide about unity. Those bipartisan meetings next week should be interesting!”
‘An Anti-Democratic Cult’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) commented on Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who will soon be “voted off” the House Republican leadership:
“Her crime: acknowledging the reality that Trump lost the election. The Republican Party is no longer a ‘conservative’ party. It is an anti-democratic cult pushing the Big Lie and conspiracy theories.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“I’m gonna just go ahead and say this ain’t unity. It’s capitulation to crazy, and it seems most have.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), commenting on the expected ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from the House GOP leadership.
We’ll Know a Lot More About the GOP After Saturday
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Cheney Saga Boils the GOP Down to Its Essence
Playbook: “The all-but-certain decision by House Republicans to oust Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) looks like one of those historical hinge moments — a party solidifying around the idea of loyalty to a single person, one who is obsessed with repeating crackpot lies about election fraud, rather than to policy or ideas.”
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