Republicans

The American Independent reports: On Saturday, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) was caught on video boasting that his caucus plans to spend the next year “knifing” President Joe Biden’s administration and impeaching top officials. Schweikert, who faces a tough reelection race for his seat in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District in November against Democratic nominee Jevin Hodge, also said House Republicans would …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to make a show of herself standing up for Confederate soldiers and “our nation’s history” on Tuesday night but failed spectacularly and instead revealed her own confusion about the Civil War. The MAGA representative visited the Wilder Brigade Monument in Georgia to claim that the memorial recognizes “Confederate soldiers.” But despite …

The Hill reports: More than 30 House Republicans have signed on to a bill to prohibit federal dollars from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials available to children under the age of 10. The measure introduced Tuesday by Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) would prohibit the use of federal funds to develop and host programs or events for children younger than …

The Washington Post reports: As a celebrity TV doctor, Mehmet Oz used his platform to spread awareness of how climate change is harming public health by fueling extreme heat, wildfires, floods and infectious-disease outbreaks. But as a Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fight for control of Congress, Oz is now denying the …

Mediaite reports: Jake Tapper took Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to task for her endorsement of various conspiracy theories over the years. The CNN host called Greene an “extremist” who is tolerated and even “embraced” by her fellow Republicans because of her preternatural ability to fundraise and receive the clout that goes with it. Tapper then aired a series of …

Law & Crime reports: A Republican candidate for a seat on the Maricopa County Community College District Governing Board may face felony charges after the police say they caught him in the act of masturbating across the street from an Arizona preschool. Randy Gene Kaufman, who identified himself as a former prison supervisor, was charged earlier this month with one …

The Charlotte Observer reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 13 in the case stemming from his bringing a loaded handgun to the Charlotte airport. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s office told reporters Tuesday Cawthorn’s trial date is set for Jan. 13. The freshman congressman has not entered a plea. Cawthorn, a 27-year-old Republican, was charged …

“That’s a method of voting that doesn’t advantage one group or another. There’s danger involved in drop boxes. People need to think about it. “Okay, imagine someone decides, ‘Oh there’s a drop box I’m just going to put some explosive in it and blow it up and burn all of those ballots.’ “And now those votes don’t count at all.” …

“As a US Senator, based on the Dobbs decision, you will have no say on that issue at all whatsoever. But they’ve they’ve tried to drag you, you know, into that discussion. “Your personal beliefs are your personal beliefs, but it’s going to be the people of every state that will decide through their locally elected representatives, the state representatives, …

Axios reports: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), the chair of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, floated to colleagues the idea of laying the groundwork for an investigation into the Biden administration’s approach to Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Axios has learned. While establishment GOP senators have urged Biden to speed up and diversify weapon sales to Ukraine, MAGA-aligned Republicans have demanded Kyiv enter negotiations …

Mediaite reports: House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made clear this week that if his party retakes the majority in the midterms, Congress is far less likely to continue supporting Ukraine’s military effort to fend off the Russian invasion of its territory. “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s Monday assault against Joe O’Dea, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Colorado, is angering Republicans while leaving them wondering if he cares about the party winning back the majority in the upper chamber. “It certainly is not [helpful],” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a Trump ally, told The Hill. “I would hate to see O’Dea lose …

Media Referee reports: A picture of Donald Trump Jr. went viral where he can be seen posing with an assault weapon with Hillary Clinton’s face drawn on the magazine. Last week, former US President Donald Trump appealed the dismissal of his lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Trump-Clinton saga has been in the news for several weeks …

The Insider reports: House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern created a “new rule” on his committee for people like Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting far-right firebrand from Colorado. When one of her “flurry of nonsensical amendments turned out to be reasonable,” McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, blocked it from going to the House floor and a Republican committee member wanted to …

Florida Politics reports: Rick Scott again isn’t providing Ron DeSantis much rhetorical cover when it comes to Florida’s property insurance problems. During an interview that aired Sunday, Scott said that rates had “skyrocketed” in the last four years, a time roughly equivalent to DeSantis’ era in Tallahassee. “And now what you’ve seen is the cost of property insurance has just …

NBC News reports: Herschel Walker was widely mocked and criticized for flashing an honorary deputy sheriff’s badge onstage at a Georgia Senate debate Friday after his Democratic opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, called him out for pretending to be a police officer. Get ready for more. Walker, a Republican, is now showing the badge, one of at least two he has …

“You just can’t make these things up. He said very definitively more than once that COVID is over and the pandemic is over. “And because of that now – the team behind him, what I call that cabal in the White House – they have to keep this pandemic going so that they can spend more taxpayer money the way …

The Insider reports: At a Republican event in September, North Carolina congressional candidate Bo Hines bemoaned the state of the economy: “Me and my wife, we can’t afford to give up a month’s salary.” He repeated this assertion in an interview earlier this month. “With 8.3% inflation, that is the equivalent of one month salary for the average American,” he …

The Washington Post reports: Michael Peroutka has made clear that if he is elected, his view of Christianity will determine his decisions. And he has said that as attorney general he will not support laws enacted by the legislature if he believes they are in conflict with his understanding of God’s law. He elaborated on many of these positions at …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: There’s this RINO character in the Great State of Colorado, Joe O’Dea, that is running against the incumbent Democrat for the United States Senate, who is having a good old time saying that he wants to “distance” himself from President Trump, and other slightly nasty things. He should look at the Economy, Inflation, …