The Party Divides: Kevin McCarthy Shouldn’t Be His Candidate for the House of Representatives 2024–Measured
The divisions were certain to consume the House as well, as Representative Kevin McCarthy is trying to rally support behind his bid to be speaker of the House. Mr. McCarthy should back Mr. Trump in 2024 because he must be more likely to do so, warned Miller on Friday.
Some of the Republicans are speaking out now, which allows Mr. Trump and his policies to go forward. While they long privately claimed to disdain Mr. Trump’s politics, they were fearful of crossing the party’s base.
The party is getting political consequences. The Senate races in Pennsylvania and Arizona were among those that Trump-backed candidates lost. On Saturday, Democrats clinched control of the Senate with a hard-fought re-election victory for Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada. In the House, despite predictions of a G.O.P. wave, neither party had secured a majority.
Murdoch owns The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal and they have both called for Mr. Trump to be kicked out of office. Winsome Sears, lieutenant governor of Virginia, and Robin Vos, speaker of the assembly in Wisconsin, said that Trump shouldn’t be the party’s nominee in 2024.
Republican moderates used the moment to bemoan the party’s plunge into conspiracy theories and divisive issues that light up the right-wing media. Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called for a return to classic fiscal conservatism. Gov. Sununu said in an interview on Friday that Mr. Trump risked putting the party in a position to lose in Georgia.
The senator who spoke at a Trump rally days before the election said it was time to move on from the pet issue. He said to stop talking in 2020.
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Republican senators who returned to the Capitol on Monday evening for the first time since Election Day were flummoxed by how the party squandered its opportunity.
While some conservatives would like to change at the top of the conference, Senate GOP leaders are pushing ahead with a mid-week vote to affirm their control.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told CNN’s Manu Raju that he has not yet decided whether he will challenge Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate Republican leader. McConnell and Scott fought over how the party should try to win the Senate.
Democrats have control of the Senate since they only had a 50% share, but could change that on December 6th with the election of a senator.
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn pointed out the growing pains of first-time candidates, a confusing political environment and a combination of issues.
It is going to be a very robust and candid conversation over the course of the next couple of days. “I think that there’s no question that we didn’t achieve expectations in this election.”
“I think looking forward is always a better campaign strategy,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. It didn’t work out when looking back to 2020.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman declined to blame Trump for the GOP’s underwhelming performance, stressing the need for “better candidate recruitment” and “sticking with the issues.”
Trump, Portman noted, “got J.D. Vance through the primary, and then J.D. won the general election by eight points,” referring to the Ohio Senate Republican nominee, who beat Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan. Portman said that some Republican candidates were not good enough for independent voters.
Republicans got control of the House despite the disappointing results. The Democrats said it could have been worse, so they were excited.
Cornyn wondered why the Biden administration considered it a victory. “It’s kind of like the old saying, there’s nothing so exhilarating, as being shot at and missed.”
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CNN has not yet projected that the Republicans will take the House, but Republicans appear on track to hold a narrow majority, which would flip the chamber.
Trump is expected to announce a comeback bid for the White House on Tuesday but some Republicans in the House and Senate did not appear ready for a repeat.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds thinks the former president won’t listen to what he has to say. “I want someone who is going to unite our party. We win elections in that way.
Simpson told CNN that he wants to see who runs for the GOP nomination. I do not believe it is good for the party.
Romney voted to remove him from office while Trump was president, and called the current president an albatross around Republican necks.
“I think he’s been on the mountain too long,” added Romney. We have lost three races with him. And I’d like to see someone from the bench, come up and take his place and lead our party and help lead the country.”
What do Republicans think of the prospect of Trump winning the Georgia Senate runoff election? A re-examination of one-time allies of the former president
Along with the Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Simpson said one of the reasons why some Republicans underperformed was their connection to the former president. Simpson thinks some of the candidates were too tied to Trump.
Thune said the party now needs to set its sights on winning the Georgia Senate runoff election, even as Democrats have already clinched the majority in the chamber.
He said that there is a huge difference between 51 and 50 so they need to focus on that seat.
“With our democracy at stake, with our fundamental liberties on the line, and with a clear choice between moving America forward or holding it back, the American people spoke loud and clear: Democrats will retain the majority in the Senate,” Schumer said.
Many House and Senate Republicans recoiled on Monday at the prospect of former President Donald Trump launching a third run for the presidency this week, a sign of his waning support on Capitol Hill after years of controversy and scandal and following their party’s disappointing midterm performance.
In interviews with a couple dozen Republicans in both chambers, most of them were content with having another candidate emerge and voters choosing someone else who could appeal to middle-of-the road voters.
That sentiment was echoed up and down-the-line by one-time allies of the former president – underscoring how the de facto leader of their party has grown increasingly alienated on Capitol Hill – especially after last Tuesday’s elections.
“None of us are entitled to these jobs,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, a Trump ally and North Dakota Republican when asked about the likely 2024 bid. “He’s certainly not entitled to it. And I certainly won’t be making any decision (to endorse) this soon.”
Others began floating rival candidates. Republican Jerry Moran said he was looking at fellow Kansan and ex-secretary of state Mike Pompeo, as well as South Carolina Republican Tim Scott.
Moran said he thinks a lot of Republicans are interested in being our nominee for president. I want the American people to make the decision. I am interested in seeing people reach the top.
I do know that the next Republican presidential contender is coming from Florida and I did not say no to Donald Trump, but I did not say yes to him. (The state’s newly reelected governor, Ron DeSantis, is becoming a favorite among Washington Republicans.)
Several Republicans on Monday blamed Trump for pushing forward lackluster candidates and obsessing about his 2020 election loss as undercutting the case they tried to make against Democrats this year.
Familiarity with the 2020 election is a bad idea, according to Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.
The view was more negative in private. One moderate-leaning GOP lawmaker said of a Trump presidential bid: “It’s like we’re on season 7, 8 of ‘The Apprentice.’ People want to change the channel. Let’s look for something else.