Infighting Is Funny

Florida GOP To Hold No-Confidence Vote On McDaniel

NBC News reports: The Florida GOP plans to hold a no-confidence vote on Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel next month, a crucial test of the embattled leader’s strength just days before her own re-election. Republican insiders say Florida has deep symbolic importance because it has consistently outperformed the national party in resisting the blue wave in 2018, re-electing Donald …

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Lindell Claims He’ll Challenge DeSantis’s Win In Florida

“What we’re doing now is, I’m going after Dade County in the 2022 election. And everyone says, ‘Well, why would you go after Dade County? This is where Ron DeSantis won Dade County, that’s a Republican won Dade County. “Well, for me, I look at deviations, everybody. That’s a deviation. I don’t believe it. So I want to show, it’s …

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Plan B: Steve Scalise On Deck In House Speaker Battle

Playbook reports: As Kevin McCarthy struggles to nail down the votes to be House speaker, a group of lawmakers has quietly approached No. 2 leader Steve Scalise about running should McCarthy falter, according to multiple GOP members and aides. Their message? “Steve, just be ready,” according to one member currently backing McCarthy who spoke to us late last night on …

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MTG And Lauren Boebert Taking Their Infighting Public

The Daily Beast reports: The increasingly hostile MAGA-world battle over whether or not to back Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for Speaker of the House has led to a falling out between onetime BFFs Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). At Turning Point USA’s winter student conference on Monday, Boebert said that her support for McCarthy isn’t …

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RNC Deluged With Demands To Oust Ronna McDaniel

Politico reports: Since the midterms, RNC members say their inboxes have been clogged with hundreds of emails each week — and the uproar has now turned to the RNC’s spending on events, private travel, luxury accommodations and other expenses in an election cycle that didn’t deliver strong GOP wins. McDaniel’s top opponent is Harmeet Dhillon, an RNC committeewoman from California …

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GOP Infighting Intensifies In House Speaker Battle

Axios reports: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is pivoting to more aggressive tactics to buoy his bid for speaker — beginning with 54 defiant “Kevin Only” statements of unqualified support, provided first to Axios. Some of them say they’re a hard “no” on anyone besides McCarthy — and won’t vote for anyone else on the first ballot or the 100th …

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WSJ Board: “Dimwitted” Republicans Are In “Disarray”

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: If a Martian arrived in Washington this week not knowing who had won the November election, he’d be forgiven for thinking it was the Democrats. Usually the losers are in disarray, but not this time. Democrats in the House minority have completed a seamless transition to new House leadership with little internal dissent. …

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McDaniel: I’d Only Debate Lindell At A Private Event

Mediaite reports: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel said she would be willing to debate Mike Lindell and/or Harmeet Dhillon, both of who are challenging her for her job. But she said she would only be willing to do it behind closed doors after she was asked by Steve Bannon if she would participate in a town hall or another public forum. …

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McCarthy Panics On Speaker Battle: It’s All In Jeopardy!

“You want to take advantage of having the majority. Remember, this is a presidential year, so you only have so many months to really get out there and govern. “And you want to hit the ground running. Every day you lose, if you lose a quarter, you don’t start strong. So you don’t get new, stronger candidates. “You don’t get …

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Bannon: Fire Those Behind Trump’s Trading Cards

“I can’t do this anymore. He’s one of the greatest presidents in history, but I gotta tell you – whoever– what business partner and anybody on the comms team and anybody at Mar-a-Lago – and I love the folks down there – but we’re at war. They oughta be fired today.” – Steve Bannon, joined by self-described “hardcore” Trump cultists …

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McDaniel Challenger Leaks Wild RNC Expense Report

The right wing RedState blog reports: Late last week, RedState was provided a report dated October 7, 2022 that examined RNC’s 2021-22 spending. It calculated more than $500,000 in private jet expenses, $64,000 at clothing retailers, and $321,000 in floral arrangements. Nearly $400,000 has been spent on event tickets and other entertainment activities, including $30,000 for a private box at …

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Politico: Speaker Battle “Paralyzes” GOP Planning

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy’s imperiled speakership bid is threatening to incapacitate Republicans during a crucial planning period, virtually guaranteeing a sluggish start for the new House majority. The GOP leader on Thursday took the unusual step of punting conferencewide races for committee leadership slots until after his speaker election on Jan. 3, a maneuver that could help insulate him from …

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Mike Lindell Challenges RNC Chair To Debate [VIDEO]

“I haven’t talked to Ronna – it’s probably been a couple of years – because I believe she went against me when I was trying to get all the attorney generals to stand up and fix at the Supreme Court level. “And she went out there right away and said, ‘Biden won fair and square! Biden won!’ And I was …

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McCarthy Rips Republicans Opposing His Speaker Bid

“Our goal was to stop the Biden agenda, win the majority, and fire Nancy Pelosi. We achieved all three of those. “I’ve been leader for four years and all we’ve done is win seats when every other Republican entity has lost during that time. “I do not think at the end of the day that five Republicans are going to …

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Texas GOP Unanimously Calls For Ousting RNC Chair

The Texas Tribune reports: Frustrated with the outcome of the midterm elections, the executive committee of the Texas GOP voted unanimously Saturday to call for new leadership at the national party. By a vote of 62-0, the State Republican Executive Committee passed a resolution saying it had lost confidence in the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel. The …

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Walker’s Homocon Son Feuds With Anti-LGBTQ Former Glenn Beck Host: Don’t Make Me Expose Your Adultery

Mediaite reports: Christian Walker warned a conservative pundit not to trifle with him after blaming the son of Herschel Walker for his father’s failed senate campaign. On Sunday night, Elijah Schaffer — formerly a TV host for The Blaze — got on Twitter and declared that the younger Walker bears much of the blame for why his father’s campaign ended …

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Freedom Caucus Squabbles Over McCarthy Challenger

Politico reports: There’s trouble brewing in the House GOP’s anti-Kevin McCarthy ranks. The group of conservatives wreaking havoc in the House GOP conference with their challenge to McCarthy’s bid for speaker is facing internal indecision that may hurt its ability to stay united, according to two Republicans familiar with dynamics in the Freedom Caucus. Most of the Californian’s right-flank critics …

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Lawyer Sues Cawthorn For $193K In Unpaid Legal Fees

Courthouse News reports: The Indiana-based Bopp Law Firm sued outgoing Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn over $193,000 in unpaid legal fees for defense work in a case challenging Cawthorn’s eligibility to seek reelection. They write: “Mr. Cawthorn served as a Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives, is over 18 years of age, and at all times material to this matter …

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Failed GOP Candidate Must Pay Candace Owens $115K

The Daily Beast reports: Former GOP congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik’s defamation lawsuit against right-wing provocateur Candace Owens, who accused Klacik of being a strip club “madame” who spent campaign funds on cocaine, has been tossed out by a Tennessee judge with prejudice. Not only is Klacik unable to file similar complaints against Owens going forward, but the judge also granted …

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Kirk: “The MAGA Movement Is Committing Suicide”

Media Matters has the transcript: It is a fact that 200,000 people more or less decided not to show up. OK, 200,000 people said I have something better to do. Now, you might say, Charlie, isn’t it fraud? Well, I’m talking about people who didn’t show up at all. They didn’t check into a voting booth, they didn’t even attempt …

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