Republican leaders scramble to unite a deeply broken GOP, fearing a failure to do so quickly could spark an intra-party battle that would recapture their chances of winning the House, Senate and presidency in the years to come, can sabotage.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel
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“If we fight each other every day and attack each other and incite party purism, we are not going to achieve what we need to win back the House and take back the Senate, and that is my priority,” said McDaniel, who was elected earlier this month. to a third term as the national officer of the GOP, The Associated Press said in an interview.
The rift within the GOP, which for the past four years has focused almost exclusively on Trump and his re-election, became clear earlier this month after a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as members of Congress rallied to win President Biden’s election victory confirm.
This episode sparked a debate among many Republicans about the future of the GOP and whether it should look beyond Trump and his brand of conservative populism, which the party has led since 2016.
But Trump’s base of ultra-loyal supporters remains a critical force in Republican politics. Many of the activists who have entered the political scene in recent years now have a major influence on the party and have tried to punish or purify the Republicans they crossed over as the former president.
In states like Massachusetts and Arizona, GOP members have tried to reprimand top Republican figures for criticizing or acting for Trump who did not comply with the former president’s wishes. Gov. of Arizona Doug Ducey
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Meanwhile, the Rep. Liz Cheney
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Another Republican lawmaker, Rep. Adam Kinzinger
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“I would tell anyone who thinks my vote was for politics that they do not know me,” Kinzinger said in an episode of the podcast “The Ax Files.” “And I would say they do not know politics now, because you need to know that you have to go through a primary exam.”
The censorship, primary threats and accusations of infidelity to Trump have hurt party leaders and operators who fear that strife will undermine their chances of regaining power in the House and Senate next year.
“The party is basically the security team. So now we start every race a little behind because of the divisive rhetoric, the purification, the free attacks on party members, ‘said one GOP operator. “So it’s clear we need to get it under control.”
The current strategy, the operator said, is to prevent tensions with Trump and his supporters from escalating, while not isolating those hoping to continue from the Trump years further.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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Meanwhile, McCarthy’s meeting with Trump on Thursday can be seen as an attempt to get back into the former president’s good grace after a rocky few weeks. Given the influence of Trump’s voter base in GOP politics, a failure to do so could be detrimental to the political prospects of House Republics.
A statement released Thursday after the Florida meeting by Trump’s Political Leadership Action Committee said the former president had agreed to help McCarthy win back the House majority in 2022.
Republicans only need a handful of seats to regain their majority in the lower chamber.
However, the recovery of the Senate may be more difficult for the IDP. Democrats currently have only the least number of majorities in the upper house, but they have a friendlier card in the upcoming midterm elections. Republicans, on the other hand, must defend 20 seats, including several in competing states.
The leader of the GOP to win back the upper house is Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Who became the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) earlier this month.
Scott was one of Trump’s strongest allies in the Senate and one of several senators who objected this month to ratifying Pennsylvania’s Electoral College after the January 6 riot. That vote has upset some Republicans about his role at the NRSC, promising several major donors to suspend contributions for those who voted against approving the election results.
But despite his support for the former president, he indicated last week that he would support the current senators against Trump’s primary challengers, saying he intends to focus his efforts on defeating the Democrats. rather than on battles within the parties.
” Part of what I’m trying to do is get everyone concentrating on, you know, what’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats, ” Scott said. “I think it’s going to be clear with a lot of Biden stuff.”
In her interview with the AP this week, McDaniel also said that the national GOP will remain neutral in the 2024 presidential election, even if Trump decides to make another bid for the White House and give a hint on how the party can strive to appease the competitive party. factions in the future.
“The party must remain neutral. I’m not telling anyone to bid in 2024 or not, ”McDaniel said. ‘It’s going to be the candidates going forward. What I really want to see [Trump] however, help us win back the majorities in 2022. ”
It is a big order to appease Trump loyalists and those who are ready to overthrow the former president. But Republicans have also acknowledged that this will not be the first time they have had to find such a balance.
“There are always several factions, divisions within any party,” said Saul Anuzis, a Republican strategist in Michigan and former chairman of the state GOP. “We have factions based on congressional districts, partisan politics, personalities.”
“We need to work on coalition politics,” he added. “We have to try to bring the party together. We can not afford to set aside any faction. ”