Republicans in the House have yet to even take the gavel, and CNN’s Inside Politics warned them on Wednesday not to offend voters by looking into Hunter Biden or wokeness. When Democrats were investigating Donald Trump’s taxes, CNN should have had this segment.
Addressing Washington Post White House bureau chief Toluse Olorunnipa, host John King declared: “[W]e’re going to see in the next year is most of these House Republicans come from safe Republican districts where they believe they will be supported back home when they take it to the Biden Administration…If you go over to the Senate side where they have to run statewide, they’re a little bit more nervous about this and we were just talking during the break about in this midterm election year people were not trying to rock the boat, they more safe than spicy if you will given all the stresses of the last couple years.”
King then asked and answered his own question, “In our exit polls what are the top issues for Republican midterm voters? The economy and inflation: 71 percent, immigration: 9 percent, abortion: 5%. So you see immigration gets a modest number there so you got to understand why the Republicans want to look at border policy.”
Finally getting to Olorunnipa, King asked, “Is there a risk they sound completely out of step, out of touch with what the American people just voted for?”
Naturally, Olorunnipa agreed, “There is a risk and that’s in part the challenge that Kevin McCarthy faces in trying to appease so many different parts of his constituency in the Republican caucus.”
After declaring Republicans should stick to inflation, Olorunnipa added, “There are a number of people who are new Republicans, new House members from Biden districts who don’t want to be spending all of their time focusing on Hunter Biden and woke policies and whatnot but focus on issues that help the American people, it’s going to be difficult for McCarthy to figure out how to do that.”
CNN is out of their heads if they think the GOP has a choice. They ran on the promise that investigations would be dealt out, to back out of that would screw them in the next elections. They’re also dead wrong saying that the people aren’t interested in what happened.
Transcript provided by the Media Research Center:
JOHN KING: And so one of the challenges, Touluse, we’re going to see in the next year is most of these House Republicans come from safe Republican districts where they believe they will be supported back home when they take it to the Biden Administration. Pick your issue, but take it to the Biden Administration. If you go over to the Senate side where they have to run statewide, they’re a little bit more nervous about this and we were just talking during the break about in this midterm election year people were not trying to rock the boat, they more safe than spicy if you will given all the stresses of the last couple years. In our exit polls what are the top issues for Republican midterm voters?
The economy and inflation: 71 percent, immigration: 9 percent, abortion: 5%. So you see immigration gets a modest number there so you got to understand why the Republicans want to look at border policy. Is there a risk they sound completely out of step, out of touch with what the American people just voted for?
TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA: There is a risk and that’s in part the challenge that Kevin McCarthy faces in trying to appease so many different parts of his constituency in the Republican caucus.
If you looking at protecting just your majority-makers, some of those moderate Republicans that won in Biden districts then you focus on inflation, you focus on some of the major policies that could actually help people and help their pocketbooks, but if you’re talking about folks like Jim Jordan and folks who are some of the flame throwers on the right you got to start talking about Hunter Biden and things the American people aren’t as interested in and so Kevin McCarthy is in a very difficult position in trying to appease so many different parts of his constituency and in doing so he may find it difficult to protect the members of his party who need protection going into 2024 because that majority is narrow-thin.
There are a number of people who are new Republicans, new House members from Biden districts who don’t want to be spending all of their time focusing on Hunter Biden and woke policies and whatnot but focus on issues that help the American people, it’s going to be difficult for McCarthy to figure out how to do that.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
