“Perception right now of Republicans in national politics is at a bottom,” a Wisconsin legislator told fellow party members on Tuesday night. Not everyone agreed.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. , a Wisconsin legislator from a rural county in the heart of this battleground state addressed his fellow Republicans at a Lincoln Day dinner — and was promptly interrupted by a man dressed as Abraham Lincoln.Scott Krug, a seven-term state lawmaker who nearly always votes with his party but has argued for compromise with the state’s Democratic governor on election policies, shook his head.
The moment Tuesday night illustrated the internal tensions in the Republican Party that have increasingly spilled into the public, stymied their ability to pass legislation and win elections and, for now at least, paralyzed the House. Pete Church, the chairman of the Adams County Republican Party, downplayed the interruption of Krug’s speech but said he’s seen a surge of internal disputes among Republicans since the 2020 election. He fears the division“What they’re doing is making it very difficult on us to keep our congressman,” he said, referring to Gaetz and other Republicans on the far right. “A government shutdown is not the answer. And vacating the speaker is not the answer either, because I’ve seen no plan for them.
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