lance of new jersey, a moderate, said republicans need to be willing to respond to the right wing hard liners in kind. use their own power, form blocks, coalitions, go to kevin mccarthy, he says, quote, go to leadership, and say we have strength as well or we will vote with democrats on sensible matters, not extravagant spending but common sense matters. lance is suggesting that republicans in competitive districts like tony gonzalez seems to be doing on immigration, goes to leadership, and says we don t have votes to pass far right legislation. and who s at the top of the ticket, that s going to have a huge impact on, you know, who wins the house majority, and lance, who lost his seat in the 2018 blue wave said if donald trump is the nominee, again, he worries that republicans may not have a chance of holding this majority no matter what the swing district republicans do. joe, mika. nbc sahil kapur, thank you so much for your reporting. when you see immigration bills coming, like we
the white house says, no. it will not negotiate. brand-new reporting spelling out how hard a time the white house will have winning the cooperation of even a small number of house republicans, even, manu raju, swing district republicans from districts that joe biden carried. you would assume they were the ones one motst likely to break ranks reporter: now now. they have a diametrically opposed position to the white house. no negotiations, no condition, just increase the national debt limit. it s been done time and time again. done three times under president trump. do it again. we don t want to negotiate and don t believe kevin mccarthy can pass any bill in the house to get 218 votes so pass a clean debt ceiling increase. the problem in talking to a number of debt republicans from the swing districts, from biden carried district, some that biden narrowly lost are indicating they are not in favor of the white house s position. flatly rejecting and indicating there needs to be some lev
about our agenda. i know that there are other swing district republicans that we want to stay in the majority, and we re going to have to be vocal sooner rather than later. we re going to have to come together and find a dozen of us who are going to put a stop to some of this when it happens. congresswoman, it s fascinating what happened in kansas, i think is one of the more remarkable election outcomes in quite some time. i never saw it coming. that was supposed to be a 50/50. and, you know, two things can be true at the same time, and you brought it up. there are a lot of people who are pro life who have identified as being pro life their entire life and at the same time, they don t think roe should have been overturned. david french, that reminds me, who has always been pro life said we can t allow courts to push this on the american people by judicial fiat, we re going to have to actually go out and start making the argument, making the pro life argument and