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☆ Trump had to explain his 'Little Rocket Man' nickname to Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo says in new book
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump had to explain to Kim Jong Un that his "Little Rocket Man" nickname was an Elton John reference. Kim told him that he didn't like the "Little" part of the nickname. When Kim said no, Trump explained that the British singer's 1972 hit song "Rocket Man" inspired him to give Kim the nickname in 2017. Kim and others at the lunch laughed, and Kim said, "'Rocket man,' OK. 'Little,' not OK."During his 2016 race for the White House, Trump gave many of his opponents catchy nicknames. Trump first referred publicly to Kim as "Little Rocket Man" on Twitter in 2017 and repeated it at a UN General Assembly speech and throughout his presidency.
☆ Arizona throws out one of the first lawsuits seeking to block Biden's student-loan forgiveness
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Arizona's new Democratic attorney general dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block student-debt relief. It was the third lawsuit filed that attempted to block the relief, and on Friday, Arizona's new Democratic attorney general Kris Mayes dismissed the case. Mayes took office earlier this month, and she indicated that she would be reviewing whether to continue her predecessor's legal challenge to Biden's broad debt relief. Two other lawsuits succeeded in pausing the implementation of Biden's debt relief, and those cases are now headed to the Supreme Court, which will hear the oral arguments on February 28. One of the lawsuits was filed by six Republican-led states who sued because they argued the debt relief would hurt their states' tax revenues, along with that of student-loan company MOHELA.
☆ Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said he 'thanked God' that he wasn't on the House floor during Kevin McCarthy's contentious speaker vote process
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Adam Kinzinger said he "thanked God" he didn't have to endure the marathon of votes to elect a House speaker. "I knew what it would be like to be on the floor and I just thanked God that I was not there," he told Charlie Sykes. Kinzinger, who left Congress earlier this month, was highly critical of McCarthy during his last term in office. "I knew what it would be like to be on the floor and I just thanked God that I was not there," he continued to say. "This couldn't happen to a nicer guy," Kinzinger said of McCarthy's struggles in rallying the far-right wing of the party shortly after the midterm elections.
☆ A former Long Island GOP congressman says the 'lack of trust' in embattled Rep. George Santos is a 'prescription for disaster'
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former Rep. Peter King in a New York Times op-ed questioned the effectiveness of George Santos. How do committee members sit still for this guy in their midst?" "Except perhaps for a few ineffective congressional outliers, I can't imagine a member of either party working or cooperating with Mr. Santos," the former congressman wrote. "And when you don't have that, you're just faking your way through the workday — something Mr. Santos is apparently pretty good at." "As long as Mr. Santos remains in Congress, he is dead man walking and will be unable to get anything done for his constituents.
☆ Trump tells Republicans to leave Medicare and Social Security cuts out of negotiations as the debt ceiling showdown heats up
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Jason Lalljee | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Donald Trump told the GOP to leave Medicare and Social Security cuts out of debt ceiling negotiations. But former President Donald Trump is warning the GOP to keep social spending programs out of it. "Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security," Trump said in the video. However, in the lead-up to Trump's 2020 run, the former president embraced abandoning a payroll tax that helps fund Social Security. Republicans and Democrats have sparred over Medicare and Social Security for years, with Republicans routinely looking to cut benefits for both programs.
☆ George Santos said he'll resign if 142,000 people demand it. Adam Kinzinger is trying to make it happen with a new petition.
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger is trying to get Rep. George Santos to resign. Santos told Rep. Matt Gaetz he will resign if 142,000 people demand it. Kinzinger kicked off an online petition on Thursday, the same day Santos appeared on the podcast "War Room: Pandemic" with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. Kinzinger also promoted the petition in a tweet on January 12, writing: "He said he'll resign if enough people ask - so game on. Long Island Republicans and the New York State GOP in January also called on Santos to resign, but Santos has refused to do so.
☆ Former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan calls on Rep. George Santos to resign: 'This isn't an embellished candidacy, it's a fraudulent candidacy'
  + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Rep. George Santos lied about key details of his life, education, and background. Former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN's Jake Tapper that Santos should resign. "I can't imagine the guy is going to stay very long," Ryan told Tapper. "Congressman George Santos, he's lied about apparently everything on his resumé," Tapper said to Ryan Capping off a 12-minute interview. This isn't an embellished candidacy, it's a fraudulent candidacy," Ryan added.
☆ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy won't push Rep. George Santos to resign, says NY voters should decide
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Christina Wilkie Kevin Breuninger | Christina Wilkie | Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to members of the news media outside of a Steering Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2023. Leah Millis | ReutersHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said he would not urge embattled Republican Rep. George Santos to resign from Congress, hours after local GOP officials tore into the New York legislator and pushed him to step down. "Look, the voters decide," McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked whether he would welcome Santos' resignation if it was offered, according to NBC News. "That's what his decision is to make," McCarthy said, adding, "The voters elected him to serve. The GOP lawmaker has apologized for embellishing pieces of his resume but has said he did not commit any crimes.
☆ A dozen Republicans file for Kentucky governor's race
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Bridget Bowman | Bridget Bowman Is A Deputy Editor For Nbc'S Political Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
A dozen Republicans filed to run against Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in Kentucky, according to the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office, following Friday's filing deadline. Bevin had called reporters to the state Capitol on Friday but did not ultimately file, per the Louisville Courier Journal. Bevin lost a close race to Beshear in 2019, falling short by roughly 5,000 votes. Kentucky is a top pickup opportunity for Republicans, given the state's partisan lean.
☆ DeSantis casts himself as a national leader at his inauguration amid 2024 speculation, promising Florida will 'carry the torch' of freedom and fight 'woke'
  + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Florida Gov. The Florida inauguration offered a split screen from the national conversation back in Washington, DC, where Republicans performed poorly in the midterms. Florida Gov. Zackary Atkins hangs a street sign with the name of Florida Gov. Retired broadcaster Gene Deckerhoff, who was the voice of the Florida State Seminoles for 43 years, was the MC for the event.
☆ DeSantis' second inauguration as governor will have a 'Free State of Florida' theme, an intimate candlelight dinner, and a toast to moms supporting the GOP governor
  + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
The overarching theme is "The Free State of Florida," the Florida Standard first reported. "The Free State of Florida" is a motto mirroring DeSantis' 2022 campaign theme. Officials stand on stage during an inauguration ceremony where Ron DeSantis was sworn in as Florida Governor, Tuesday, January 8, 2019, in Tallahassee, Florida. This inauguration, DeSantis is considering turning down donations from Big Tech companies, The New York Times reported. "I support Governor DeSantis and am honored to have been invited to his inauguration," GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida told Insider.
☆ America's democracy survived Trump in 2022. But what about 2023?
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Tara Setmayer | Tara Setmayer Is A Resident Scholar At The University Of Virginia Center For Politics | A Senior Adviser At The Lincoln Project. She Is A Former Gop Congressional Communications Director. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
That led hundreds of election deniers to run for offices across the country in 2022. But in 2022, American democracy became an issue outside the political norm for voters’ consideration. But it wasn’t just the outcome of the election that signaled that our democracy was still holding on in 2022. Thankfully, the majority of them did, with the exception of professional election deniers like Kari Lake, who lost the Arizona governor’s race to Katie Hobbs. Not since the tumultuous political climate of the 1930s has American democracy faced such a perilous era.
☆ Kari Lake’s Claims of Election Misconduct Rejected by Arizona Judge
  + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kari Lake previously had submitted other claims related to the election outcome, but those were also dismissed. An Arizona judge rejected the remainder of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake ‘s claims of election misconduct, saying she failed to prove the allegations that ballots weren’t counted correctly and mishandled in the state’s most populous county. Every witness brought before the court “was asked about any personal knowledge of both intentional misconduct and intentional misconduct directed to impact the 2022 General Election. Every single witness before the Court disclaimed any personal knowledge of such misconduct,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson wrote in the ruling. Mr. Thompson was appointed to the bench by former GOP Gov.
☆ Trump's campaign rollout has been terrible and his hold on the GOP is weakening, outgoing Republican senator says
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Outgoing GOP Sen. Pat Toomey says Trump's influence over the Republican Party is waning. Toomey also said it might have to do with Trump's "unbelievably terrible" 2024 campaign rollout. And frankly, his unbelievably terrible rollout of his election campaign is also not helping him," Toomey said on CNN on Sunday. The outgoing Republican senator added that he thought Trump's influence was already declining, albeit "not as quickly" as he hoped it would. He added that it is a sign of Trump's weakness that other Republican candidates are expressing an intention to run even after Trump announced his campaign.
☆ Kevin McCarthy's impossible GOP math
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +10 min
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is far from assured of winning sufficient support in his party to become House speaker next month. The tiny GOP House majority that takes over in January, after a disappointing midterm performance, would mean a fragile governing mandate for any party at any point in American history. McCarthy’s impossible mathFrom a broader political perspective, it might be in McCarthy’s interest to stand up to the most extreme members of his conference. The path to the GOP majority went through comparatively moderate seats in places like New York that will be most at risk in the 2024 election. But it also reflected Greene’s growing personal power, after she broke with some radical GOP members and lined up to support McCarthy’s speakership.
☆ Former adversary John Boehner praises 'incredibly effective' outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi in tearful Capitol Hill tribute
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Former Speaker John Boehner had nothing but kind words for Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday. The Ohio Republican praised his one-time foil at her official portrait unveiling on Capitol Hill. "No other speaker of the House ... has wielded the gavel with such authority," Boehner said. The waterworks started earlier, though, as Boehner recounted how his daughters had asked him to "tell the speaker how much we admire her." She handled the career change like a champ then, Boehner said, and he seemed to believe she'll be fine with whatever comes next too.
☆ McCarthy's struggle to lock down House Speaker roils GOP caucus, delays key committee assignments
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
A spokesman for McCarthy did not respond to questions from CNBC about the committee vote schedule. Instead, both sides have dug in over the past week, telling reporters they're ready to take the fight all the way to the House floor on Jan. 3. "Oh yeah, I'll take the speaker's fight to the floor," McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol recently. "The goal was never to embarrass Kevin McCarthy on the [House] floor, no one wants that," she said. It also prompted McCarthy to issue a long statement condemning her prior remarks, which he said "do not represent the values or beliefs of House Republicans."
☆ How Trump’s legacy became ‘pure poison’ for independents
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +16 min
Among female independents, Trump’s ratings were even worse: just 23% favorable and 72% unfavorable, according to previously unpublished exit poll results provided by the CNN polling unit. Trump’s unfavorable rating hit a comparable 69% among independents with at least a four-year college degree. That was a significantly smaller advantage than the double-digit lead among independents Democrats enjoyed in both the 2020 presidential race and the 2018 contest for the House. While Democrats held the presidency, Republicans won independents by double-digits in House elections in the midterms of 2014, 2010 and 1994. Gretchen Whitmer won 59% of the independents with degrees and 56% of women independents.
☆ Warnock gains early voting edge as both candidates barnstorm Georgia in final day before Senate runoff
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | Sahil Kapur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
An early vote that topped 1.85 million showed other positive signs for Warnock, with Democrats enjoying a 13-point edge — larger than the party’s 8-point lead in November’s early vote, according to TargetSmart’s model. But Walker is widely expected to win more of the votes cast on Election Day. Residents wait in line to vote early outside a polling station on Nov. 29 in Atlanta. Walker “needs to win Election Day by double digits,” said Cody Hall, an adviser to Kemp, who said the Republican candidate will have to outperform his advantage from November's Election Day. “But I would just caution everyone that base Republican voters in the last couple of cycles have liked turning out on Election Day.
☆ Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich warns Republicans to stop 'underestimating' Biden
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Newt Gingrich recently warned Republicans to stop "underestimating" President Joe Biden. The ex-GOP House speaker blasted Biden's policies but said Democrats had been able to pass "radical" bills. Gingrich said conservative "hostility" to Biden has prevented Republicans from fully judging his record. Gingrich said on Wednesday that GOP opposition to Biden has caused the party to minimize the success of the president and his party. Gingrich represented a slice of suburban Atlanta in the US House of Representatives from 1979 to 1999 and was its speaker from 1995 to 1999.
☆ The GOP doesn't get to wipe off the 'deep stain' of Donald Trump and move on to Ron DeSantis so easily: ex-RNC chair
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele says GOP leadership can't move on so easily from Trump. Trump left a deep stain on the GOP after the Capitol riot and by meeting Nick Fuentes, Steele said. "They want all of us at this point to fixate on, 'We're past Trump, we're no longer doing Trump," Steele said. "But I'm sorry, you don't get to wipe that stain off your clean white shirt that easily because that's a deep stain." Trump, who declared his bid for the 2024 GOP ticket on November 15, received considerable backlash after dining with Fuentes at Mar-A-Lago on November 22.
☆ A senior official needs to be with Trump at all times after the dinner scandal with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, per new campaign rules: AP
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump's team has a new rule: A senior official needs to be with Trump at all times, the AP reports. This comes after the backlash to Trump's dinner with rapper Kayne West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. A senior official from the Trump campaign will accompany the former president at all times, a source familiar with the plans told the AP. Several sources close to Trump told NBC the dinner was a real blow to the Trump camp. "This is a fucking nightmare," an anonymous longtime Trump adviser told NBC.
☆ Trump said Kanye West is a 'seriously troubled man, who happens to be Black,' and defends controversial Mar-a-Lago dinner
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump recently hosted Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago for dinner along with white supremacist Nick Fuentes. While defending the dinner, Trump said the rapper was "a seriously troubled man, who happens to be Black." West claimed Trump screamed at him during the dinner over the rapper's ambitions to run for president in 2024. Trump claimed on Truth Social on Saturday that Ye had requested the meeting at Mar-a-Lago and that he gave the rapper much-needed "advice." One anonymous longtime Trump adviser told NBC News that the fallout from the Mar-a-Lago dinner was a "fucking nightmare."
☆ Ex-GOP congressman says Trump's Mar-a-Lago dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes 'further diminishes' the former president as a 'serious' political figure
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ex-Rep. Charlie Dent on Saturday criticized Trump for dining with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. "This is simply inexcusable that he would have dinner with this noted white nationalist," Dent said. "This is simply inexcusable that he would have dinner with this noted white nationalist, antisemite Nick Fuentes, and of course, Kanye West with all of his baggage. "It also speaks to a larger problem for former President Trump — that there apparently are no gatekeepers. "But finally, I guess I would say this further diminishes Donald Trump as a serious political figure.
☆ Chris Christie slams 'attention-hungry' Trump for dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes proving he is an 'untenable' candidate for 2024
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Donald Trump recently hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The governor, a one-time Trump ally turned critic, said he was an "untenable" candidate for 2024. Chris Christie said that former President Donald Trump was not suitable to be president after he hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The Justice Department has labeled him a "white supremacist," and the Anti-Defamation League has described him as a "well-known white supremacist pundit and organizer." Christie has suggested multiple times that he is considering running to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024 against Trump.
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