The Buffalo News reports: Saying President Trump “lost his mind” after the 2020 election, Rep. Chris Jacobs on Friday called on the Republican Party to choose someone else as its presidential nominee in 2024. “I think it would be best for the party if we embrace the new generation of leadership,” Jacobs, an Orchard Park Republican, said in a wide-ranging …
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GOP Rep Abruptly Drops Reelection Bid After Days Of Far-Right Backlash For Backing Assault Weapons Ban
First, this from the New York Post: The Republican and Conservative parties are leaving GOP Rep. Chris Jacobs for dead following his call for a federal ban on assault weapons in response to the massacre by an avowed white supremacist in Buffalo. “This is not the person we endorsed. We did not endorse this Chris Jacobs … he’s actually to …
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The Buffalo News reports: Rep. Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park on Friday made a surprising about-face on gun control issues, becoming perhaps the first congressional Republican to call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas. At a news conference in Lancaster and in a later interview with The Buffalo …
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