Even Those On The Right Think 'Legitimate Political Discourse' Declaration Could Hurt GOP in Elections
Even Those On The Right Think 'Legitimate Political Discourse' Declaration Could Hurt GOP in Elections
“I think that you're seeing Republicans wishing that other Republicans would stop talking about this. But until Donald Trump does, they're in trouble,” libertarian podcaster says
A continued focus on the 2020 presidential election — and the official Republican declaration which says that the deadly insurrection in the wake of that election was merely “legitimate political discourse” — could well come to hobble the Republican Party in what otherwise should be a good midterm election for them this year.
That's according to some political analysts, including those associated with the political right.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted Friday to censure Republican Reps. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, and Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, for their participation in the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out by the supporters of then-President Donald Trump. In the process, it also attempted to reframe the events of that day as “legitimate political discourse.”
That extraordinary statement could come back to haunt Republican candidates this November, according to Liz Claman, a host on the Fox Business Network.
“When a national political party like Republicans define all the attacks that we saw with hockey sticks and tasers and all kinds of weapons including the American flag pole being used as a spear, when they define that as ‘legitimate political discourse,’ I can pretty much guarantee you they’ve got bigger problems than Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger,” Claman said in an interview with Fox News host Howie Kurtz. “And we're closer to the midterm elections than we were January 6, that was pointed out by The Daily Caller, a very conservative site, who made that connection.
“But, Howie, I would only say, every Democrat rival is going to be using that video and then that ‘legitimate political discourse' [resolution] in those ads, and that is going to be a problem for Republicans,” she added.
As the party out of power in Washington DC, Republicans are hoping to make significant gains in November's midterm elections, including potentially retaking the majority in the House of Representatives.
The problem is the fact that Trump refuses to move on from his 2020 loss, according to Jane Coaston, a libertarian podcaster for the New York Times.
"But, for Donald Trump, the idea that he lost the 2020 election, which he did, is the biggest slap in the face imaginable. And so I think that you're going to see increasingly, in this year's elections and in 2024, that whether or not you believe the ‘Big Lie' is going to be a litmus test,” Coaston said in an interview Sunday on ABC, referring to Trump’s falsehood that the election was stolen from him due to massive Democratic fraud. “And I think that we're going to see that moving forward.
“And it's interesting, people keep saying, like, ‘politicizing January 6.’ January 6 was a political event,” she said, referring to the deadly insurrection which left then-Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers running for their lives as extremist supporters of Donald Trump's stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the lawful and legitimate certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. “The point of January 6 was that someone who lost an election believed he didn't lose an election. That's a political statement.
“And so, I think that you're seeing Republicans wishing that other Republicans would stop talking about this. But until Donald Trump does, they're in trouble,” she said.
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