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Chris Kapenga on Tuesday that the MSNBC host said amounted to “Stalinist groveling.”
Hayes outlined Trump’s strategy of attacking Republicans who haven’t backed election audits in their respective states. Last week the former president issued a missive declaring, “Wisconsin Republican leaders… are working hard to cover up election corruption… They are actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit.”
Trump added that if Republican leaders in Wisconsin don’t authorize an audit, “I have little doubt that they will be primaried and quickly run out of office.”
In other words, Trump is threatening to endorse primary challenges to Republican lawmakers who won’t indulge his wholesale lunacy that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Public infighting aside, voters are unified and energized against the left.
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Republicans have had a brutal news cycle over the past month or so, between the ouster of Liz Cheney from leadership and now, the intraparty jousting over whether to get on board a January 6 commission.
The overwhelming sense from the press coverage is that the party is descending into madness and civil war, and is a husk of its former self, risking long-term irrelevance.