JohnnyApplesack
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now this is strange.......here we have the tea party nation enthralled with Agent Orange as he attacks their own tea party nation.........nice work GOP!!! lol
President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the GOP health-care bill, vowing to fight them in the 2018 midterm elections.
In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast." He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president.
There are about 32 members of the Freedom Caucus, and most of them were elected or reelected comfortably in solidly Republican districts. With his tweet, Trump seemed to be encouraging primary challenges to each of them in next year's elections. Asked to elaborate on Trump's threat, the White House had no immediate comment.
"Nothing to add at this time," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "The president's tweet speaks for itself."
Trump: ‘We must fight’ hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 midterm elections
President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the GOP health-care bill, vowing to fight them in the 2018 midterm elections.
In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast." He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president.
There are about 32 members of the Freedom Caucus, and most of them were elected or reelected comfortably in solidly Republican districts. With his tweet, Trump seemed to be encouraging primary challenges to each of them in next year's elections. Asked to elaborate on Trump's threat, the White House had no immediate comment.
"Nothing to add at this time," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "The president's tweet speaks for itself."
Trump: ‘We must fight’ hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 midterm elections