Kevin McCarthy stumbled through questions about his failure to condemn Donald Trump’s dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, lying about the former president’s own statements regarding the matter in the process.
from House leadership to investigate Nancy Pelosi and the Department of Justice over Jan. 6.
The lack of unified messaging from party giants, and the hesitancy to draw a hard line against explicitly hateful right wing actors, speaks to the precarious position of Republican leadership in the aftermath of the 2022 midterms. With the expected “red wave” manifesting as little more than a pinkish ripple, the party is demanding a postmortem on the failures of their campaign strategy.
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