{"id":19253,"date":"2024-05-18T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/house-gop-infighting-fuels-bitter-primary-election-season\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:46:30","slug":"house-gop-infighting-fuels-bitter-primary-election-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/house-gop-infighting-fuels-bitter-primary-election-season\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP infighting fuels bitter primary election season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Long-simmering tensions within the House GOP are poised to inflame as members of Congress find themselves in the throes of the election season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ideological, political and even personal differences that have seen Republicans\u2019 razor-thin House majority wracked with chaos in the 118th Congress are now manifesting in lawmakers endorsing primary challengers against their incumbent colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think every member should worry about their own race and not get involved in other people\u2019s races,\u2019 Rep. Will Timmons, R-S.C., whose own primary challenger is backed by several members of the House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News Digital. \u2018But unfortunately, there\u2019s a domino effect when, you know, he makes decisions to get involved in other people\u2019s races. It\u2019s only logical that there will be a countervailing force.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Timmons, who is being backed by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was referring to Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., who has endorsed several Republican challengers running to the right of current members.<\/p>\n<p>Good himself is facing a GOP opponent who has seen support from his colleagues. A fundraiser invitation from late March, previously obtained by Fox News Digital, for Virginia state Sen. John McGuire\u2019s campaign also included GOP lawmakers like House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Reps. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., and Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also being opposed by Defending Main Street, a super PAC affiliated with the pragmatic House GOP group known as the Main Street Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ll just say we can\u2019t change Washington with the people who are here in Washington that are part of the problem,\u2019 Good told Fox News Digital when asked about the situation with his endorsements and those against him. \u2018And I will say that the endorsements of challengers to incumbents started on the other end of the party, started with the liberal moderate members, the establishment RINOs, endorsing against me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another notable race where Good and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., have involved themselves is Texas\u2019 23rd congressional district, where Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is facing a runoff primary against social media influencer and Second Amendment activist Brandon Herrera. Gaetz and Good have both backed Herrera, while Gonzales has the backing of the speaker and other fellow Texas Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I won all 29 counties in the primary, and I\u2019m gonna win all 29 counties in the runoff,\u2019 Gonzales told Fox News Digital. \u2018Anyone who\u2019s ever run against me has never served in public office. So bring it on.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When pressed about members endorsing his opponent, he said, \u2018If Matt Gaetz spent as much time trying to defeat the Democrats as he does on his eyebrows, we would be in a great position.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz responded in a statement to Fox News Digital, \u2018I would love to spend all of my time fighting only the Democrats, but if Republicans like Tony Gonzales are going to vote like Democrats and act like Democrats, I\u2019ll fight them too. And anyone who gets close to me sees that my eyebrows are quite unkempt.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Other GOP lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital expressed dismay at their colleagues\u2019 infighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I find it outrageous. As somebody from the business world, you go out of business doing things that way,\u2019 Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>He said of Gonzales\u2019 race, \u2018That\u2019s a difficult district for Republicans to win. I mean, Tony is like the perfect guy for it. So the idea that we\u2019re trying to out-red him in a primary, I think is just foolish because you\u2019re gonna lose Tony, and then you\u2019re gonna get someone who doesn\u2019t fit with the district, and we\u2019re gonna lose that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And then, you know, going after Good, I mean, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right, either,\u2019 Meuser added.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital of the infighting, \u2018I think it\u2019s very unfortunate.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think it\u2019s very, very sad that we have Republicans caring more about fighting against Republicans than the real true challenge we have because of what Democratic rule is,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-simmering tensions within the House GOP are poised to inflame as members of Congress find themselves in the throes of the election season. Ideological, political and even personal differences that have seen Republicans\u2019 razor-thin House majority wracked with chaos in the 118th Congress are now manifesting in lawmakers endorsing primary challengers against their incumbent colleagues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}