Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
They’re also dialing up the rhetoric against the GOP’s new nominee for speaker, prominent Donald Trump ally Jim Jordan of Ohio, blasting him as an insurrectionist, election denier and extremist.
“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by dozen of Democratic lawmakers. “His focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and driving division amongst the American people.”
Force them to propose a moderate willing to make concessions and work across the aisle.
Do they have any moderates left?
I don’t know, but they certainly have concessions left.
Yeah, but what concessions have they made recently that they actually followed through with?
None, which is why Democrats aren’t helping them.
Republicans will need to offer concessions that they can’t later wiggle out of. Kind of like the concessions McCarthy offered to Gaetz.
This will determine it. They do have varying levels of extreme.