Republican spokesman Adam Kinzinger has launched a new campaign to bring the party back from the influence of members such as Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
‘The Republican Party has lost its way. If we are to lead again, we need to gather the confidence to remember who we are, ‘Kinzinger, 42, said in a video launching his Country 1st PAC.
A Republican must say there is enough. It’s time to remove the tool of harassment, reject the politics of personality, and put aside theories of conspiracy and rage, ‘said an Illinois representative.
His political action committee, published in a six-minute video released Sunday, will challenge the current GOP leadership that Kinzinger argues has gone wrong as a ‘Trump-party’. first. ‘
It went out as George W. Bush’s officials were told to plan a major departure from the Republican party, as a sign of the deep divisions he faces when Trump lost the case.
‘The biggest danger right now is that we’ve become a dabbles party – not just dabbles – we’ll be traffic in conspiracies and we’ll be licking traffic,’ said a GOP representative and Illinois.
Representative. Adam Kinzinger launches new Super PAC to reclaim Republican Party from Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
‘We traffic in conspiracies and we traffic lies,’ Rep. Adam Kinzinger spoke about GOP under the influence of former President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie taylor greene
The PAC will be a means of making a financial impact on the GOP ahead of the 2022 mid-term election.
And it comes as the Republican Party struggles with a deep division of ranks – between the radical beliefs associated with Trump and Greene and the traditionalists who want to return the party to its conservative roots.
Kinzinger, a former lover of the conservative Tea Party movement, rejected the views of people like Greene and made it clear that he believes GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy has shown weak leadership when it comes to addressing the more radical elements of the GOP.
But his move also shows the legacy facing many Republicans – speaking out against Trump calling for millions of loyal supporters, who are a force for themselves in the GOP.
Kinzinger revealed to NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday that he has turned friends and family against him, telling him he’s ‘possessed by the devil’ while separating himself from Trump’s shield.
He was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 attack, which he described as a personal breakout for himself. Kinzinger is a veteran of the Royal Air Force, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Illinois Republican Party is expected to criticize Kinzinger for his impeachment vote.
He was dismissive of Greene’s actions, which have come to national prominence in the last few days as her view on social media has come to light, implying that she believed that the California wildfire was caused by space lasers; states that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, before her death, used a double body; And that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin cut a child ‘s face while she was alive – they are all fake.
Kinzinger also had harsh words for Trump ally on Capitol Hill Rep. Jim Jordan, who is pushing to remove a Republican representative. Liz Cheney for party leadership for criticizing Trump for inciting a MAGA mob that attacked the Capitol, leaving five dead and a trail of destruction behind.
‘They are political terrorists,’ Kinzinger said of Jordan and his friends, on a zoom call with reporters over the weekend, according to the Washington Post.
But Greene also has the strong deposit of supporters. She announced Friday that she raised $ 1.6 million from all the controversy surrounding her and revealed Saturday that she had spoken to Trump, whom she previously identified as a Republican star at the time. come. ‘
Republicans oppose their own count as they struggle for a way forward after losing control of the White House and Senate to Democrats.
Amid that struggle, dozens of Republicans in the administration of former President George W. Bush are leaving the party, Reuters reported, about frustration with Trump’s lingering impact on GOP politics.
They are a status-and-file Republican who is upset that Trump’s loss in the White House has not lost its grip on the party.
‘The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d say it’s Trump’s cult, ‘said Jimmy Gurulé, a former underwriter of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration.
Meanwhile, McCarthy is expected to meet face-to-face with Greene this week to discuss her posts on social media, many of which happened before she was a member of Congress. In them, she expressed support for killing Democrat politicians, rubbing baseless QAnon theories along with racist views.
The House Republican Conference meets Wednesday to discuss Cheney’s status and to discuss whether Greene should be punished for what she did.
McCarthy initially said Trump is carrying some responsibility for the January 6 MAGA riot on Capitol Hill, which the former president criticized, saying it was’ p *** y. ‘
But McCarthy seems to have made a correction. On Thursday he met Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in a meeting described as ‘very good and cheerful.’ They were read out with a picture of the two men smiling.
Adam Kinzinger referred to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan (right) as ‘political terrorists’
The Republican Leader of the House, Kevin McCarthy, will meet with Rep. Greene this week about her controversial posts on social media and House GOP as a whole will meet Wednesday on the issue
Kinzinger criticized McCarthy for bowing to Trump.
‘I was embarrassed over the last few weeks to see who the Republican Party was waking up to and then kind of fell asleep again and said,’ Well, yes you know, what ‘s important if we can win in two years and we don’t want to tick the bottom,’ he said.
‘The picture,’ he said, ‘shows that the former president is desperate to continue to look like he is leading the party. ‘
Kinzinger denied the state of the Republican Party right now, telling NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ that we let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we’ve come in a bad way. How retrospective we are, the extent to which we peddle darkness and division. And that’s not the party I ever applied for. And I don’t think most Republicans signed up to that. ‘
‘It doesn’t mean we don’t have to fight back, you know, to defend what we believe in, the principles of conservation,’ he said. ‘But when I ask people now what a conservation principle is, how many people think that conservation principles are just like’ build the wall ‘and, you know, put a cost on the Capitol and they will have a revolution? ‘