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>Senate GOP backlash smacks RNC after
>Cheney-Kinzinger censure
>Feb 8
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>In interviews on Monday evening, GOP
>senators lashed out at their own
>national party's overwhelming vote to
>censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and
>Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for working on
>the House's investigation into the
>Jan. 6 Capitol attack. They warned that
>alienating a portion of the party for
>being overly anti-Trump is not a
>political winner heading into the
>midterms, a sharp message from sitting
>members that goes far beyond criticism
>already aired by a handful of GOP pundits.
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>�A very unfortunate decision by the
>RNC and a very unfortunate statement
>put out as well. Nothing could be
>further from the truth than to consider
>the attack on the seat of democracy as
>legitimate political discourse,� Romney
>said in an interview. Graham said the
>party is going in the �wrong direction�
>when it�s not talking about taking back
>control of Congress.
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>The RNC is supposed to be a unifying
>organization within the party. But its
>passage of a resolution censuring
>Cheney and Kinzinger for the
>�persecution of ordinary citizens
>engaged in legitimate political
>discourse� is having the opposite effect �
>reopening divisions between the large
>pro-Trump wing of the party, the smaller
>anti-Trump wing and the rest of a GOP
>still trying to find its way amid a
>favorable midterm cycle.
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>The RNC �did say in their resolution
>that the job was to win elections. I
>agree with that. But then they go on
>to engage in actions that make that
>more challenging,� said Sen. John
>Cornyn (R-Texas), who is close to
>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
>�I don�t think you can kick out of the
>party everybody you disagree with. Or
>it�s going to be a minority party.�
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>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/senate-gop-backlash-smacks-rnc-
>after-cheney-kinzinger-censure-00006456
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