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More Republicans won’t back accepting white washing the Jan 6 Capitol attack…

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The efforts by some Trump supporters in the RNC seem to have backfired….

Keeping the spot light ON the attack and bolstering the two Republican House members that sit on the Select Committee investigation the event and what then President may have done connected to it….

Added to this is the support Mike Pence has received across the board from Republicans who take his view that even if Donald Trump wanted him to?

He had no choice but to certify the Electoral Vote before Congress…..

This is also indirectly allowing some Republicans to appear to object to Donald Trump’s  ‘hold’ on the party in public…

Trump’s Grip on GOP Being Tested

USA Today: “In the past week alone, prominent Republicans – including Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and Trump’s own former vice president, Mike Pence – have pushed back on the ex-president, especially after allies persuaded the party organization to censure two GOP lawmakers over a Jan. 6 investigation.”

“Recent polls show a softening of Trump’s numbers, though he remains the top-rated Republican and is certainly the most well-funded.”

“The result could split the Republican party, with ever more fervent Trump followers on one side and those disenchanted by the former president on the other, complicating GOP efforts to take back control of Congress and pass their own policy priorities.”

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The censure of the two House Republicans is inviting talk of replacing the Republican National Committee head…

Ronna McDaniel, the RNC  chair,  isn’t gonna be going anywhere, which make things worst in the media ….

This is just example of how Donald J. Trump is tearing the guts out of the party he’s pimping for his own ego…

Asked if McDaniel should step aside, Senate GOP Whip John Thune of South Dakota said: “Oh, I don’t know. Ultimately, it will be up to the RNC. But it’s just not a constructive move, when you’re trying to win elections and take on Democrats, to take on Republicans. It’s just not helpful.”
Privately, Republicans began to reach out to McDaniel — including her uncle, GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who exchanged texts with her over the weekend. While Romney said McDaniel is a “wonderful person and doing her very best,” he said he had made clear to her how he viewed the matter.
“It could not have been a more inappropriate message,” Romney said before adding: “Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us.”
Republicans want to make the midterms a referendum on Biden, the economy, crime and school closures during the pandemic — not a rehash of January 6, 2021. But with Trump still obsessed over his election loss and hell-bent on punishing his perceived enemies in the party, Republicans keep finding themselves sucked back into the former President’s 2020 conspiracies and lies of a stolen election. And it’s especially frustrating for Republicans at a time when they see Biden’s poll numbers slump and they have historical trends on their side.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he had spoken with McDaniel about the controversy, who had told him that she “condemned the violence” but had argued they were criticizing the panel for targeting individuals who hadn’t engaged in violence that day.
“I think all of us up here want to talk about forward and not backward,” Graham said. “We want to talk about why we should be in charge of the House and the Senate, and when you’re not talking about that, that takes you in the wrong direction.”…

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