Exiting House Republicans See a 'Big Wave Coming' After Speaker Paul Ryan Calls It In
Exiting House Republicans See a 'Big Wave Coming' After Speaker Paul Ryan Calls It In
We shouldn’t be kidding ourselves about this, said retiring Republican House member Charlie Dent. ‘Big wave coming—get off the beach.’
Matt Laslo 04.12.18 5:20 AM ET
Tears were shed in the closed-door Republican meeting Wednesday morning when House Speaker Paul Ryan formally announced his retirement. The sorrow spilled into the marble halls of the Capitol, giving the building the air of a funeral parlor throughout the day, but critics say that had more to do with the rotting corpse that is the contemporary GOP than with Ryan’s early departure.
Still, most Republicans followed Ryan’s lead and tried to put on a happy face, arguing that his retirement had to do with his desire to spend time with his kids, not the dire odds facing the GOP this fall.
Democrats say the GOP leadership under Trump has remained in a perpetual state of reality-TV-induced mental coma about their party’s unpopular president and agenda. Now they say it extends to how they’re spinning Speaker Ryan’s departure.
“What else are they going to say? They’re not going to declare defeat,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the deputy chair of the DNC, told The Daily Beast. “They’re going to fight back. I mean, they’re in it to win it just like we are, but I mean it’s not a good sign. It’s chaos.”
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