'Knock it off': Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other
(CNN) 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.
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Walleye
(31,109 posts)FSogol
(45,570 posts)Grins
(7,246 posts)I keep a file I titled, Only one Party
To highlight things Republicans do that Democrats DONT.
Primarying fellow Republicans is practically the raison d'etre of their Party, and Knock it off, aint gonna stop it.
Its in their DNA. Its their way of punishing members for being insufficiently venomous toward the nation and the American public. Its been going on for decades.
While I can think of a couple instances where incumbent Democrats have been primaried, it is minuscule compared to the ravenous savages in the Republican Party.
PatSeg
(47,691 posts)No one in their right mind wants the position of republican Speaker of the House. That caucus is beyond control.