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“If they said ‘Hey, listen, he won’t do anything on the border. He’s not doing anything with Hunter Biden. He is not going to do anything to go reduce spending.’ “None of this is true, so it’s almost as if they’re debating things that are their egos, nothing to do with America. “They can’t grab onto anything except for, I …

Politico reports: Twice McCarthy has been on the precipice of taking the gavel, and twice a group of conservatives has worked to block him from the House’s most powerful perch. He bowed out of the race in 2015 amid the House Freedom Caucus opposition. This time, his allies say he’s prepared to fight until the potentially bitter end. How long …

GOP Rep. Don Bacon writes for the Daily Caller: Much has been made of me saying I would work with moderate Democrats to elect a more moderate speaker. But my actual words were that if the five refused to coalesce around what the vast majority of the conference wants, I’m willing to work across the aisle to find an agreeable …

“This is a fight between a handful of people, and the entire rest of the conference. And they’re saying they have the right to screw up everything. “Well, the precedent that sets is; so do the moderates, so do the members from Florida. I mean, any five people can get up and say, ‘I’m going to screw up the conference, …

Playbook reports: We caught up Sunday with one of the GOP fence-sitters, a member who has been in the room for these negotiations. And he told us that some of these undecided members won’t support McCarthy — even if he gives them everything they want. Can Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) deliver McCarthy the gavel? More so than Donald Trump, who …

“I’ve spent the last three weeks doing due diligence within the RNC. Just the money itself that it costs. Forty cents for every dollar that you go out and get from big donors goes to these things, one of them’s called ‘Data Trust.’ “To me, it’s like a big money laundering operation. Don’t quote me on that, we’re still digging. …

The Associated Press reports: At a time when the conservative movement is almost singularly oriented around “owning the libs,” Ducey spent his two terms outmaneuvering Democrats to advance Republican priorities, reshaping his state in a decisively conservative direction. Yet he leaves office Monday with a limited national profile and the enmity of GOP foot soldiers less interested in the pile …

CNN reports: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has offered a key concession to critics of his bid for the House speakership during private conversations this week: reducing the threshold that is required to force a floor vote on ousting the sitting speaker. One of the numbers that has come up in recent conversations between McCarthy and GOP lawmakers – and …

Playbook reports: House Republicans are starting to ask themselves two “what-if” questions surrounding Kevin McCarthy’s fate: 1) If the California Republican gets the gavel, how long will he be speaker? And, if he doesn’t, 2) how does he serve out his remaining days in Congress? On the first question: There’s a consensus among many House Republicans, one that few would …

The Daily Beast reports: In a just-released deposition surrounding Dominion’s defamation lawsuit, the Fox News star said he’d never believed—not “for one second”—baseless election fraud claims stemming from the 2020 election. That stance, directly at odds with many of his primetime segments and the beliefs of many of his closest allies, has put Hannity in an awkward position. Among the …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of having “crossed a rubicon” after she slammed Republicans who intend to vote against a Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speakership. Responding to Greene’s accusation that he — along with others, including Matt Gaetz, are actively misleading the Republican base by voting against McCarthy—Biggs said: …

The New York Post reports: Per New York magazine, since the 76-year-old Trump’s Nov. 22 dinner with anti-semitic rapper Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago became public, Kushner has ignored requests for “help … for public support, even looking for a response” from his father-in-law’s nascent election operation. Meanwhile, the report added, the 41-year-old Kushner has taken …

The Daily Beast reports: The far right is out to destroy one of their own. Over the past week, far-right pundits have begun lining up to take shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as the congresswoman reportedly vacationed in Costa Rica. As for why fellow extremists are upset? That’s three-fold—and it involves Greene’s vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy …

“Look at Arizona. You’ve had the state party at war with the governor in that state for four years. The two candidates for governor, one wouldn’t endorse the other. “You had one candidate saying, ‘If you’re a McCain voter, get the hell out of my rallies.’ “Then the McCain voters said, ‘Yeah? I’m not gonna vote for you.’” – Ronna …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: The DisRespect for Marriage Act imposing the recognition of same-sex ‘marriage’ on every state only passed because 12 Republican Senators voted against us. That dirty dozen was joined by 47 Republicans in the House. Now former President Donald Trump has hosted the homosexual lobbying group Log Cabin Republicans at his Mar A …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …