Rep. Tom Emmer Thomas (Tom) Earl Emmer House GOP campaign chief: Not helpful for Trump to meddle in primaries House panel spars over GameStop frenzy, trading apps The Hill's Morning Report - Biden on COVID-19: Next year Americans will be 'better off' MORE (R-Minn.), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said Wednesday that is not helpful to the GOP's goal of winning back a majority in the House to have former President Trump Donald Trump House passes voting rights and elections reform bill DEA places agent seen outside Capitol during riot on leave Georgia Gov. Kemp says he'd 'absolutely' back Trump as 2024 nominee MORE targeting incumbents in primary races. Speaking at an event hosted by Politico, Emmer said he has not spoken to Trump directly about staying out of primary races involving the 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach Trump. But he said that he believes Trump will listen to Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Ronna Romney McDaniel House GOP campaign chief: Not helpful for Trump to meddle in primaries RNC chair on censures of pro-impeachment Republicans: 'Overwhelmingly, our party agrees with each other' Sunday shows preview: 2024 hopefuls gather at CPAC; House passes coronavirus relief; vaccine effort continues MORE and other GOP leaders telling him “that’s not going to be helpful.” ADVERTISEMENT “I imagine we’ll have a conversation at some point,” Emmer said. “He can do whatever he wants. Any citizen can do whatever he wants. But I’d tell him it’s better for us that we keep these people and have a majority that can be sustained going forward.” Emmer said the NRCC will not intervene in primaries, even to protect incumbents. Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen from him, which preceded the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, has split the GOP into warring factions between those who believe they must ...
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Here’s the Real Reason Everybody Thought Trump Would Lose
Donald Trump may go broke, but it won’t be by underestimating the intelligence of the public. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Why did almost everybody fail to predict Donald Trump’s victory in the Republican primaries? Nate Silver blames the news media, disorganized Republican elites, and the surprising appeal of cultural grievance. Nate Cohn lists a number of factors, from the unusually large candidate field to the friendly calendar. Jim Rutenberg thinks journalism strayed too far from good old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting. Justin Wolfers zeroes in on Condorcet’s paradox. Here’s the factor I think everybody missed: The Republican Party turns out to be filled with idiots. Far more of them than anybody expected. The 2006 movie Idiocracy depicts a future in which Americans have grown progressively dumber, and eventually elect as president of the United States a professional wrestler, who caters demagogically to their nationalistic impulses and ignorance of science. Only because the film took place in an imaginary world was it possible to straightforwardly equate a political choice with a lack of intelligence. In the actual world, the bounds of taste and deference to (small- d ) democratic outcomes make it gauche to do so. But the dynamic imagined in Idiocracy has obviously transpired, down to the election of a figure from pro wrestling: behold your Republican nominee for President of the United States pic.twitter.com/WwOqpOdtJb — Jon Ward (@jonward11) May 10, 2016 While it’s impolite and politically counterproductive, if we want to accurately identify the analytic error that caused so many of us to dismiss Trump, we must return to the idiocy question. The particular idiocy involves both the party’s elites and its voters. The failures of the elites have been the source of analysis for months now. Republican insiders and donors failed to grasp the severity of the threat Trump posed to their party, many ...
Troops defending Capitol sickened by undercooked meat: report
Michigan National Guard troops that have been tasked with defending the U.S. Capitol since the riot on Jan. 6 are being served undercooked food that is landing some members in the hospital, according to a report by 7 Action News. A Michigan National Guard staff sergeant told the news station about the meals the troops were receiving and shared pictures of the undercooked meat. “Yesterday, for instance, there were 74 different meals found with raw beef in them,” the sergeant, who was not named by 7 Action News, said. "Just yesterday ... soldiers had found metal shavings in their food.” ADVERTISEMENT Food is now spot-checked after the issue left some soldiers sick and in the hospital, according to 7 Action News. However, the National Guard told The Hill that no National Guard members have been hospitalized due to the food that was served to them. “Out of the 26,000 who were deployed and the 5,200 who remain, approximately 50 have been treated for gastrointestinal complaints,” the National Guard spokesperson said. “Six of them were treated as outpatients at military treatment facilities; others were handled at aid station set up as part of the Task Force.” The undercooked food has continued to appear in guardsmen's meals this week. The sergeant said on Monday that the meat for dinner on Sunday was raw. “ Now, after the raw meat yesterday for dinner, they have told us not to eat the meals for the next two days and are giving us MRE’s instead. Soldiers are now paying for all their meals for the next two days in order to get real food,” the sergeant said on Monday. National Guard troops have been at the Capitol since January to protect the city during the presidential inauguration. They remained in place due to Qanon conspiracy theories that say former President Trump Donald Trump House passes voting rights and elections reform bill DEA places agent seen outside Capitol during riot on leave Georgia Gov. Kemp says he'd ...
The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Lawmakers face Capitol threat as senators line up votes for relief bill
Presented by Facebook Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Thursday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 513,091; Tuesday, 514,657; Wednesday, 516,608; Thursday, 518,453. Senate Democrats on Wednesday took a scalpel to President Biden Joe Biden The West needs a more collaborative approach to Taiwan Abbott's medical advisers were not all consulted before he lifted Texas mask mandate House approves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act MORE ’s $1.9 trillion relief bill hoping to surgically ensure enough support from centrists this week to clear the measure, already passed by the House. Biden and Senate allies say they’re willing to be less generous with the bill’s income cutoffs for proposed $1,400 federal direct payments to higher-income individuals and families ( The Hill and The New York Times ). The Hill : Senate Democrats cut deals to gain votes for COVID-19 relief measure. The Senate is moving with the pace of a cooling saucer and hopes for a final vote later this week ( Reuters ), while the House on Wednesday suddenly accelerated its floor schedule to approve sweeping voting and police reform bills and canceled plans for votes today amid new security threats involving the Capitol ( The Hill ). Law enforcement and intelligence officials warned that extremists threaten to attack the Capitol today based on a convoluted and false belief that former President Trump Donald Trump House passes voting rights and elections reform bill DEA places agent seen outside Capitol during riot on leave Georgia Gov. ...
Democrats snipe on policy, GOP brawls over Trump
Newly empowered Democrats are split over a $15 minimum wage hike, the president’s war powers and other policy issues, while distracted by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo Democratic NY legislator: Sexual harassment allegations show 'clear pattern of Cuomo's abuse of power' Lawyer for former Cuomo aide blasts 'falsehoods' at briefing As Trump steps back in the spotlight, will Cuomo exit stage left? MORE ’s (D) harassment scandal, which worsens by the day. Republicans are having a full-blown existential crisis as former President Trump Donald Trump House passes voting rights and elections reform bill DEA places agent seen outside Capitol during riot on leave Georgia Gov. Kemp says he'd 'absolutely' back Trump as 2024 nominee MORE and his allies look to banish GOP lawmakers who rebuked him after a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Two months into the 117th Congress, leaders in both parties are fighting to iron out internal divisions within their own ranks. But the breadth and scale of their difficulties occupy different universes. While the Democrats are sniping over specific provisions of their policy agenda, Republicans are battling to prevent a full-scale civil war from cleaving the party for years to come. ADVERTISEMENT Republicans “are struggling with craziness. They are struggling with insurrectionists,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal Pramila Jayapal Democrats snipe on policy, GOP brawls over Trump House Democrats' ambitious agenda set to run into Senate blockade Progressives push White House to overturn wage ruling MORE (D-Wash.) told The Hill on Tuesday. “And we are struggling with how to get aid to the maximum number of people and lift people up across the country.” The disparate intraparty clashes are a consequence of an extraordinary few months that saw Trump lose the election, refuse to acknowledge defeat, encourage thousands ...
