“Every Republican still in the House next year will be forced to run for reelection while possibly supporting a convicted felon at the head the GOP ticket. They will also have to say they believe the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.”
That doesn’t seem to be a problem for the many Republicans who still refuse to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. Many of these election deniers, Williams notes, have been “authorizing subpoenas for Biden’s family in an effort to impeach the president.”
But MAGA Republicans have been losing at the polls, including in last Tuesday’s elections in Kentucky, Virginia and elsewhere.
The sad fact, according to Williams, is that most Republican officeholders still fear Trump and the political damage he can inflict if they cross him.
That said, facing the “prospect of being asked to defend Trump for the next three years, while getting nothing done on Capitol Hill,” a few Republicans are finally saying enough and walking away.
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
