The Washington Post goes there in trying to show the Post -Trump Presidency Republican Party ….
Fading in the headlines and on social media…
Some GOPer’s (Like Youngkin in. Virginia) seem to flirt with their support for Donald Trump, but then go on their own , running on policy, NOT devotion to a flawed man , who just lost his job and can’t get over it…
But?
There IS a push but others to embrace Trump’s supporters, even it’s gonna hurt them politically at home….(Most are in safe districts anyways)
The pushback against those who voted FOR the Biden Infrastructure bill is a prime example…
Trump was against it…
13 Republicans House members voted for the Biden bill…
While THAT vote will most likely WOULD help themselves in next years Midterms ?
Some party members are knocking them for NOT following a guy who LOST his own election…..
That one particular position, though, is one that increasingly serves as a litmus test for the rest of the GOP: fealty to former president Donald Trump. Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump and her insistence that he be held to account for his role in the violence on Jan. 6 led to her ouster from the party’s House leadership. A few weeks after that, she was censured by the Wyoming Republican Party. This week, the party went further, voting to assert that Cheney is no longer recognized as a Republican.
What’s interesting about this is that there doesn’t seem to be any indication that this third layer of sanctions was a function of Trump’s own activism. He did attack Cheney (yet again) last week in a statement on his website, but it’s not clear he did much beyond that. This particular party-loyalty police action seems mostly to have been a function of the party going above and beyond to enforce loyalty to the former president.
To some extent, that’s probably a function of Trump’s reduced voice in the national discussion. After the violence on Jan. 6, Trump lost access to his major social media platforms. Two weeks later, he lost the presidency. Between those two muting factors, Trump has been far less of a presence in the national consciousness. Americans are searching for information about Trump at about the rate they did in mid-2015; he’s mentioned on television cable-news networks even less often….
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It’s fair to wonder how sustainable this effort might be. A legislator can be a Republican in good standing one day and, because they supported a bill negotiated by Republicans that would increase funding in their districts, they suddenly emerge as an enemy of the right and an ally of socialism. Efforts to enforce loyalty often collapse when they overspill their obvious boundaries. It’s easy to see how another few responses like the one to the infrastructure vote might pose that risk….
The House Republicans Leader McCarthy IS in a bad place….
Thinking about the Midterms?
He is asking his party people to stop back biting members of his party in the House that voted FOR the Biden Bill, which will help them get elected and carry out what EVERYBODY says will be a Republican move take back a House majority….
As with things centrist to Donald Trump…
Loyalty TO Trump could cost GOPer’s any chance of a majority House or even Senate in 2023….
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., sought to navigate the delicate GOP divisions over the new infrastructure law, making the case Tuesday that Republicans should focus on criticizing Democrats instead of one another.
At a closed-door House Republican caucus meeting, McCarthy called on lawmakers to stay unified and not to attack their Republican colleagues, two sources familiar with the meeting said. McCarthy suggested that they should focus their fire on Democrats’ Build Back Better bill, one of the sources said.
Some far-right members who are closely aligned with former President Donald Trump have begun attacking fellow Republicans who voted for the $550 billion infrastructure package. Publicly, McCarthy, who has been one of Trump’s loudest defenders, has struggled to hold together a caucus that has publicly feuded over the former president.
Trump has threatened to work to unseat the Republicans who supported the bipartisan infrastructure law, which was a key piece of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda….
The House voted 223-210 to censure Republican Paul Gosar of Arizona.
Only two Republicans,Kinzinger and Cheney, supported the condemnation of this racist and anti Semite, the moral equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
Meanwhile ,House Republican Leader, Kevin “the worm” McCarthy ,threatened retaliation if the Republicans win the House next year,.
One can only imagine the pure bigotry and hatred of those in Arizona who would vote to send this bigot to Congress.
We’ll see on the retribution threat to The house committee
I doubt it will stop them with Bannon and Meadows the only two i believe that has not spoken to the committee
The vote to censure Gosar was actually 223-207.
Aye: All 221 Democrats + as Jack said, Cheney (R?( & Kinzinger (R).
Nay: 207 (all R)
Present: Joyce (R) of Ohio
Not voting (3 R):
Griffith Republican Virginia
Loudermilk Republican Georgia
Perry Republican Pennsylvania
But John Katko, Lee Zeldin & Elsie Stefanik (all R-NY), Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) as well as Steve Scalise (R-La) — a victim of real, not virtual, deadly violence — and Greg Pence (R-Ind.), son of the nearly-hanged VP, all voted against censuring Paul Gosar.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021379
Trump’s revenge tour on infrastructure vote splits Republicans in West Virginia House race
By Melanie Zanona, Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 10:34 AM ET, Wed November 17, 2021
Donald Trump has been on a retribution campaign against the House Republicans who voted to impeach him. Now the former President is expanding his revenge tour to include a new crop of members: GOP lawmakers who backed the bipartisan infrastructure law.
This week, Trump inserted himself squarely into the middle of a member-on-member matchup in West Virginia, where two incumbent Republicans who voted different ways on the infrastructure law will be pitted against each other next year because redistricting lumped their districts into one.
Trump endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney after they met at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday, a week after Mooney had voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. His GOP opponent, Rep. David McKinley, voted for it.
“It seals the deal,” Mooney told CNN, referring to his Trump endorsement.
But McKinley, who has been touting the billions designated for roads and bridges in his state, said on Tuesday that his constituents and county mayors have been clamoring for such a program for years.
“They’ve wanted infrastructure,” McKinley said.
Asked about Trump’s endorsement of Mooney, McKinley said, “I know, I saw that,” and walked into the House chamber.
The infrastructure law has divided the Republican Party, pitting business-minded Republicans like McKinley against Trump and allied outside groups, who haven’t wanted to give President Joe Biden a bipartisan accomplishment as he struggles in the polls.
It has also become the latest proxy war in the battle over Trumpism in the GOP, with Trump and his hardcore supporters vowing revenge against the Republicans who helped turn the measure into law — a victory that eluded Trump during his own presidency.
The bill had split the top Republicans on the Hill, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell among the 19 GOP senators to vote for it, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy actively lobbied his colleagues to try to kill it.
“Seventy-five percent of the American people support infrastructure, unlike the other issues we’re talking about,” McConnell said Tuesday. “From a Kentucky point of view, it was extremely good for our state. I’m proud of my vote.”
A study in contrasts
In West Virginia, the contrasts between the two candidates are sharp.
McKinley, who voted more often with Trump than Mooney, has deeper roots in the state and currently represents a majority of a new district created after the state lost a seat due to its relatively slow population growth.
Meanwhile, Mooney, a member of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus, has voted more frequently against President Joe Biden, including against establishing a commission investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which McKinley supported. Mooney objected to the certification of Biden’s 2020 victory, while McKinley did not. Some in the GOP think Mooney is positioning himself to challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin when he’s up for reelection in 2024….
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/west-virginia-house-race-mooney-mckinley-trump-infrastructure/index.html
As Trump’s stead hand weakens?
House GOP Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
Politico: “Ahead of a vote on Democrats’ biggest agenda item, the GOP conference is embroiled in messy internal spats that have spilled into public view, including the censure Wednesday of a far-right House member, the first such vote in more than a decade. At the same time, some rank-and-file Republicans are still pushing to punish their own colleagues for backing a bipartisan bill reviled by former President Donald Trump.”
“That turmoil is no longer an anomaly for the GOP. The party’s emboldened conservative agitators have repeatedly stoked controversies that threaten to become all-consuming distractions, leaving House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to seek out a fire extinguisher. The recurring problem could hurt the party as it works to claw back the majority next year.”