The famous story goes that in the 1970s, while teaching political science at the University of Louisville, Mitch McConnell made a chalkboard list of three requirements for success in politics: money, money and money. His critics therefore rejoiced when companies began pledging to withhold their money from Republicans who voted to overturn the presidential election. For example, when the news broke Jan. 11 that Verizon would stop contributions to all those Republicans who voted against certification of the election results, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project tweeted out a biting reference to Verizon’s cellphone ads. “Hey GOP,” they wrote. “Can you hear me now?”
The podcast started shortly before the 2020 presidential elections and the hosts from the beginning have hoped to offer right-leaning listeners an alternative to wildly popular leftwing podcasts like Chapo Trap House or Pod Save America.
Ruthless is nowhere near as prominent as either podcast but in the seven months since the first episode the show has hosted eight senators, three members of the House of Representatives, one governor and a handful of prominent Republican operatives. Four prospective Republican presidential candidates have joined the show at timely moments – Ted Cruz came on around the time he was embroiled in a scandal over a trip to Cancún while Texas suffered a power crisis.
Congressional Republicans wondered where Melber and others are finding Biden s so-called party unity. The only bipartisanship President Biden has inspired is against his far left progressive agenda, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement provided to Fox News. There was zero Republican support for the Biden Blue State Bailout and there is even less support for the Biden Boondoggle.
Washington Post columnist Max Boot, known for frequently reminding readers that he has left the GOP, shared Melber s prediction that Biden Republicans will bring down the party in a recent piece. The GOP can’t be saved, he wrote. Center-right voters need to become Biden Republicans.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is facing criticism for remarks about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that at least one lawmaker in his home state called "racist."