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Republican voters have become more likely to hold their own party accountable for the chaos in Washington. On Sept. 11, 32% of Republicans polled said they would blame their party most ifthe government were to shut down. Forty-nine percent of GOP respondents disapprove of how congressional Republicans are handling their jobs, according to a Thursday poll conducted by Global Strategy Group and released by Navigator Research, a Democratic firm. Sixty-nine percent of all voters said they disapproved of the way congressional Republicans handle their jobs.
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Never mind that Senate Republicans let the former president off the hook each time. Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House. Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration’s border security czar, and sweeping up Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (a Donald Trump holdover, by the way), Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Lord knows who else.
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“We already had upwards of 20 who said they could not support Tom Emmer,” he said. “We are again back to where we started.” Nehls himself voted present when his name was called, he told reporters. "I don't defend the performance of the speaker, I don't defend the actions that have been taken," Good told reporters after the Friday vote. "However, that doesn't mean that I support what I would consider to be not the most prudent action right now. We're six months before an election, we have a two-three vote margin." Trump is the likely GOP presidential nominee, is very popular among the GOP base but still deeply unpopular among swing voters. “These incumbents are going to have to run under the banner of Trump for president,” Fleischman said.
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in multiple interviews this afternoon refused to rule himself out in the run for the speakership, insisting the GOP conference will decide. Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York called Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz a "vile" person and said that he should be expelled from the conference. Gaetz, along with other GOP hardliners, moved to oust McCarthy from the speakership.
Many months after opening an inquiry oddly based on nothing more than to-be-determined charges, Republicans have no hard evidence of an impeachable offense by the president. Voters who are paying very close attention may recall that the GOP refused to empower McHenry to get business done while the speakership race continues. Garcia is the only one of the five Californians in question who voted against certifying some election results. The proposal to grant him more power, which would probably need buy-in from Democrats, fell flat Thursday when it became clear Republicans were overwhelmingly against it, leaving the lower chamber foundering as it’s set to enter its fourth week without a permanent leader. McCarthy officially launched his campaign for House speaker last week, telling his Republican colleagues that he would be a "listener" and strive to "build consensus from the bottom-up rather than commanding the agenda from the top-down."
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The five Californians’ decision to back the Ohioan could come back to haunt them. Jordan’s deep ties to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election may not sit well with key voters in swing districts, Democratic strategist and pollster Cornell Belcher told The Times on Friday. Capitol building and end proxy voting, which was approved by Democrats during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow absent lawmakers to have another member cast votes for them. He also vowed to entrust House committees with drafting and marking up bills, and marshal resources to allow the House to conduct oversight of the Biden administration. While McCarthy was able to corral enough backing to win the nomination from his GOP colleagues, the conference's slim control of the House gives the conservative faction more leverage. His ability to wrangle votes from his fellow GOP members is also likely to be tested when it comes to must-pass measures, such as legislation funding the government and addressing the debt limit, as the U.S. is expected to hit its borrowing limit in 2023.
It’s also not clear whether a future speaker —knowing the bitter divide over the Ukraine issue — would be willing to move a joint package on the House floor. The White House has yet to formalize a request for additional aid to Israel — it is expediting weapons already purchased first — but briefers on a call with lawmakers Sunday night underscored that there would be an eventual need as Israel burns through munitions. Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator, likened the conference to a “scattergram” as Republicans continue to debate the way forward.
Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas, who is backing Rep. Steve Scalise as speaker, said the world is looking at the House with concern, adding that the crisis in Israel has put more pressure on lawmakers to unite. And Republican Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the hardliners who voted to oust McCarthy, defended himself against those who have called for kicking the eight off committees. Rep. Kevin McCarthy has so far not arrived at the House Republican conference meeting Monday night, as some members urge him to return to the top role. Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry is limited to help Israel in the midst of war — meaning the House can’t pass any legislation until a new speaker is chosen.
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“I think it’s real important that we go to the floor with 217 votes, 218 votes,” Jordan told CNN. When pressed on whether the eight rebels who voted last week to oust McCarthy understand the urgency, McCaul said if the attacks against Israel don't "wake up members of my conference, then I don’t know what else will." “I would prefer to have that vote within the family before we go to the floor and not have a repeat of the 15 ballots," the Texas Republican said, referring to the protracted floor fight in January that ended with Kevin McCarthy winning the gavel. "I think that just projects weakness. Another Republican state representative, Jacqueline Parker, decried the GOP votes for repeal, calling abortion "akin to slavery."
As a result, Johnson and his predecessor, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have seen several rules fail on the floor, largely over objections from the right flank of the party. Ahead of the vote, Democratic leaders had not committed to supporting the rule, as text was not yet available. But they said they were open to the possibility and they were committed to getting foreign aid passed.
Duarte and Garcia’s races are considered “toss-ups,” Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog, noted on Friday. Cook rates Valadao and Steel’s races as leaning Republican, and Kim’s as likely to go Republican. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan ended his bid to lead the lower chamber Friday after facing stiff opposition from moderates and other lawmakers in key districts. McCarthy fended off an 11th-hour challenge for the nomination from Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who was involved in efforts both within Congress and at the state level to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Biggs announced his bid Monday night, telling Newsmax in an interview that "we have a new paradigm here, and I think the country wants a different direction from the House of Representatives." - Speaker McCarthy after being sworn in as the 55th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The loss of McCarthy from upper leadership could have especially dire consequences for California’s state Republican party, which has long relied on him to keep money coming into the Golden State, said Mike Madrid, an anti-Trump Republican consultant who’s become a critic of the party. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster is the first of those challenges. McCarthy’s fundraising allies have said they will work with Johnson to ensure the money continues to pour into Republicans’ coffers. But Johnson is relatively unproven as a fundraiser, and McCarthy, who pulled in more than $500 million last election cycle, rose to the top of his party in part because of his ability to rake in dough. House Republicans have all but folded the Big Top on the Biden impeachment circus.
Republican Rep. Max Miller called for an extra week for the House GOP to decide on a nominee and said that people in the room were “broken." The issue is likely to be put directly before voters in November's election. GOP state Rep. Alexander Kolodin likewise accused the body, including the Republicans joining with Democrats, of moving forward because of political pressures and likened abortion to the killing of "infants." The repeal of the abortion ban would then take effect 90 days after the end of the legislative session, which must be before June 30. Two Republican senators have already said they will support the repeal effort, signaling the House bill should pass that chamber and then go to Gov. Katie Hobbs' desk to be signed into law. "I've known for a while that the votes were there, it just takes a lot of fortitude, a lot of spine," Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, who sponsored the bill, told ABC News' Jaclyn Lee.
But leading conservatives like Trump, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Senate candidate Kari Lake have touted their general support for abortion restrictions but said the 1864 ban goes too far. Many state Republican lawmakers sharply objected on Wednesday to the push to undo the Civil War-era ban that has roiled the politics of the state after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that it is enforceable. The Senate on Wednesday separately conducted a second read of its own abortion ban repeal bill, without objection, setting up a parallel vote -- though that is likely moot now because the House bill has been approved. Three Republicans on Wednesday joined Democrats in the Arizona House to vote to repeal the state's controversial 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, which was revived by a court ruling earlier this month and which only includes exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman. It’s not simply that Ms. Greene has taken such a Putin-pleasing approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine (Ukrainian Nazis? Really?) that the term “useful idiot” feels unavoidable. She has, in very little time, undermined the influence of her party’s entire right flank, driving less unhinged Republicans — most notably the House speaker, Mike Johnson — to brush back her and her ilk like the poo-flinging chaos monkeys they are.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul warned that the conference should elect a new speaker by Wednesday to avoid appearances of weakness and dysfunction amid war in Israel. The campaign has said that they have gathered more than 500,000 signatures -- surpassing the necessary threshold, but will continue to gather signatures "until the wheels fall off," a spokesperson told ABC News. "At the end of the day, your politics is important but it is not worth our souls," he said.
First elected to the House in 2006, McCarthy has worked his way up the ranks of Republican leadership, serving a majority whip and majority leader under former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan. He took over as the top Republican in the lower chamber in 2019, when Democrats gained the House majority. "The rules are the rules, and practice and custom in our conference has always been make your case, get a majority of the majority, become the nominee. ... That's the way it should be. And I would hope that's the way it will be this week," Womack said.
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