then, congressman steve king of iowa is facing criticism from members of his own party for his association with white nationalism. the chairman of the house gop campaign steve stivers tweeted congressman steve king s recent comments, actions and retweets are completely inappropriate. we must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms and i strongly condemn this behavior. this comes after congressman king recently met with members of a far right austrian party with historical nazi ties during a european trip financed by a holocaust memorial group. on saturday congressman king reportedly told the washington post that members of that group would be republicans if they were in america. the criticism also follows a recent tweet by king where he posted a picture from his annual pheasant hunt, saying different
yeah, the weekly standard a couple weeks ago called out king and then i had a series of speeches where i said is there one republican elected official who is willing to also hold him accountable? i applaud representative stivers for what he was able to say yesterday and it s where they needed to draw the line, and you see that along with other corporate pacts that have drawn out from promoting steve king these days. so you just see this movement of saying, do you know what, this is unacceptable. and as the president, j.d. scholten, works to distract and seems to always sort of appeal to the base at moments when he s feeling the squeeze, that s my opinion, we re seeing the issue of birth right citizenship come up, of even maybe even