'Knock it off': Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other
Source: CNN Politics
Published 7:00 AM EDT, Sun March 17, 2024
House Republicans, who have seen their time in the majority devolve into a seemingly endless series of internal party feuds, now have a new problem: GOP lawmakers targeting other sitting members in their primaries.
In at least four primaries in South Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Virginia Republican members are actively campaigning against one of their own, inflaming tensions in a conference where emotions are still raw in the aftermath of Kevin McCarthys unprecedented ouster atop the House.
Speaker Mike Johnson has had enough.
Ive asked them all to cool it, Johnson told CNN at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia last week. I am vehemently opposed to member-on-member action in primaries because its not productive. And it causes division for obvious reasons, and we should not be engaging in that. So Im telling everyone whos doing that to knock it off, Johnson added. And both sides, theyll say, Well, we didnt start it, they started it.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/mike-johnson-house-republican-primary-fights/index.html
Full headline: Knock it off: Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other in bitter primary battles
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)So gratifying.
Hekate
(90,704 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Carry on
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)In the show, an Alien from another planet assumes human form. A Native American man see him and warns his daughter that he "can't see him".
When he looked at him to see his soul, he saw nothing.
When I look at clown Johnson, I see a soulless shell pretending to be human.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(5,546 posts)serious skeletons to fall right out of himselfs closet!
tanyev
(42,559 posts)Blue Owl
(50,390 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)This even happens in the Democratic party primaries. Shocking.
thesquanderer
(11,989 posts)supporting challengers who are primary-ing them.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)It's a primary. A Dem candidate can campaign against a Dem incumbent. And a Dem candidate can support another Dem candidate in some other district. Incumbents have an advantage, normally, but that shouldn't prevent others from challenging.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,009 posts)slightlv
(2,817 posts)I didn't start it ...he did! Sounds just the two year olds they always show themselves to be. Remember when a kid hits two they're said to be starting in on the terrible twos.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,942 posts)Senate and Governor positions.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)czarjak
(11,278 posts)Now pick up a Bible and read the part about serving two Masters. Jodey Arrington too.
Bucky
(54,013 posts)We're not immune to charges of internal fighting. We're not as bad as the Republicans, but we too have our own little purity police
republianmushroom
(13,597 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,308 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Go pray on it.