Infighting Is Funny

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: So many people are asking what I thought of history’s lowest rated “presidential” debate, & how would I rate the players. It’s so easy to be a critic, but who on this subject would be better than me. To begin with, I thought Ron DeSanctimonious was terrible, with his bobble head facial movements & …

CNN reports: In a private meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Richard McCormick of getting physically aggressive with her, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter – a charge that McCormick has denied, saying it was a “friendly gesture.” Greene claimed to Johnson that McCormick grabbed her by …

Michigan Live reports: Michigan Republican Party chair Kristina Karamo could be in trouble. There’s a growing likelihood Karamo could be removed as chair of the party less than a year into her tenure after a majority of the party’s state committee skipped a Saturday meeting she convened to attend one organized by a group of discontented party leaders. With only …

Axios reports: After Fox News and Fox Business hosted the first two debates, the RNC proposed that Newsmax co-sponsor the third debate as the junior partner to ABC News, four people familiar with the matter told Axios. Newsmax executives were wary of being a junior partner with a mainstream media outlet, and thought the $2 million co-sponsor fee the RNC …

Politico reports: Florida Republicans should have clout in the House. They have the numbers, the pedigree and the recently earned distinction as an epicenter of Republican politics. Despite the numbers, they yield little sway. No members are in leadership. No Florida Republican holds a gavel. And while they often vote together on Florida issues, they’re otherwise a motley crew with …

NBC News reports: Leaders of Ron DeSantis’ Never Back Down super PAC met privately last Tuesday to hash out a strategy for fighting Nikki Haley’s rise in the polls. Instead, two of them nearly came to blows. Jeff Roe, the top consultant for the super PAC, got into a heated argument with longtime DeSantis confidant Scott Wagner while a small …

“Six years ago, the David Horowitz Freedom Center invited the then little-known Candace Owens to its annual Restoration Weekend gathering of conservative movers and shakers, about which she later referred to as ‘the conference where everything started for me.’ “The David Horowitz Freedom Center went on promoting Candace, honored her with an Annie Taylor Award for Courage in 2018, and …

The Wrap reports: The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro urged anchor Candace Owens “by all means, quit” on Wednesday after the two feuded on social media about her coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The quarrel began with a TikTok video that went viral over the weekend in which Shapiro blasted Owens “faux sophistication” about the conflict, adding that her “disreputable” …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens posted a cryptic tweet on Tuesday hours after Ben Shapiro, the co-founder of the Daily Wire and her boss, went viral online for slamming Owens’s comments about the Israel-Hamas War. “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise …

The Daily Beast reports: In a letter addressed to Ethics Committee Chairman Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), Rep. Matt Gaetz called for an “immediate and swift investigation” into the “assault” — something Burchett had declined to pursue. “This Congress has seen a substantial increase in breaches of decorum unlike anything we have seen since the pre-Civil War era,” Gatez wrote without …

CNN reports: GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the back Tuesday morning while Burchett was talking to a reporter, the latest sign of how tense the dynamics are in the House GOP conference. McCarthy denied the incident to CNN, saying, “I didn’t shove or elbow him. It’s a tight hallway.” …

Raw Story reports: NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales reports that McCarthy gave Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) a “shove” as he walked past him in the Capitol, which led to Burchett trying to confront McCarthy. “Why’d you elbow me in the back Kevin?!” said Burchett, as reported by Grisales. “Hey Kevin, you got any guts!?” As McCarthy walked away, Burchett referred …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has brought his quarrel with ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to the big screen in a documentary-style short film titled “Gaveled Out: Return of the People’s House,” which he posted to X on Friday. The 13-minute movie starts in January with McCarthy’s difficult election to the speakership where he was shown asking …

The Daily Beast reports: After Rep. Lauren Boebert helped get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus over the summer, Greene has been on a payback mission against her former friend-turned-nemesis. And after a date at Beetlejuice The Musical turned into a national conversation about groping, Greene has resorted to a playbook familiar to any woman …

CNN has the transcript: Raju: [Rep.] Matt Gaetz [(R-FL)], you’ve been mentioning a lot. How much would the Republican Party benefit if he were no longer a member of the House, in your opinion? McCarthy: Oh, tremendously. I mean, people have to earn the right to be here, and I just think… I mean, he’ll admit to you personally he …

NBC News reports: Ramaswamy kept up his focus on Haley, with the most intense moment coming when he went after her daughter. He said she had joined TikTok, even as Haley had criticized Ramaswamy at a previous debate for using the app despite its ties to China. “She made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter …

“In our conference we had Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans that declared red lines, where any speaker that passes a CR [continuing resolution for funding] or funds Ukraine war funding should be ousted. “So my question is, we’re about to have Speaker Mike Johnson pass the CR. And he is talking about passing mega, mega Ukraine funding = trying …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Why would anybody endorse Ron DeSanctimonious, who is like a wounded bird falling from the sky? His Poll numbers are terrible, he is totally against Ethanol, and fought to destroy Social Security and Medicare. Well, the “Nation’s most unpopular governor,” Kim Reynolds of Iowa, just endorsed him. What’s that all about? Which was followed …

The Meidas Touch reports: The Ron Desantis campaign is seeking to capitalize on any momentum it will receive tonight with the endorsement from Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds by simultaneously launching a brutal broadside at Trump. This is, by far, the most aggressive attack made by the Desantis campaign yet on Trump. The clips include Trump forgetting what state he was …

Salon reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., lashed out as House Freedom Caucus members on Thursday after nearly two dozen Republicans voted to shoot down her attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a fellow MAGA Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, criticized Greene’s “feckless resolution” as “deeply flawed” and filled with “factually …