CNN reports:
House Republicans, who have seen their time in the majority devolve into a seemingly endless series of internal party feuds, now have a new problem: GOP lawmakers targeting other sitting members in their primaries. Speaker Mike Johnson has had enough.
“I’ve asked them all to cool it,” Johnson told CNN at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia last week. “I am vehemently opposed to member-on-member action in primaries because it’s not productive. And it causes division for obvious reasons, and we should not be engaging in that.”
“So I’m telling everyone who’s doing that to knock it off,” Johnson added. “And both sides, they’ll say, ‘Well, we didn’t start it, they started it.’”
Read the full article. As I reported earlier this week, Rep. Matt Gaetz is gleefully defying Johnson and has posted mocking replies to articles questioning his support for far-right challengers to GOP incumbents.
‘Knock it off’: Speaker Johnson scrambling to put down civil war between House Republicanshttps://t.co/iemB3B3r3V
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