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Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson, a Never Trump conservative who is supporting President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, has complained that no matter how badly Donald Trump humiliates GOP leaders, they ultimately "bend the knee" to him. One of the Republicans Trump humiliated badly in 2023 was House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota), but that hasn't stopped Emmer from endorsing frontrunner Trump in his party's presidential primary.
After former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was ousted as House speaker, Emmer was among the Republicans who was nominated for that position. Ultimately, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was confirmed as speaker, but not until after the unsuccessful bids of Emmer and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
When Emmer was nominated on October 24, Trump angrily railed against him on his social media platform Truth Social. The former president slammed Emmer as a "Globalist RINO" who was "totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters." And Trump, according to Politico, called someone "close to him" and said of Emmer — who dropped out of the race — "He's done. It's over. I killed him."
But on Wednesday, January 3, Emmer announced his endorsement of Trump on X, formerly Twitter.
The Minnesota congressman tweeted, "Democrats have made clear they will use every tool in their arsenal to try and keep Joe Biden and his failed policies in power. We cannot let them. It's time for Republicans to unite behind our party's clear frontrunner, which is why I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President."
The Hill's Emily Brooks notes that "Emmer's endorsement means that all of the top five members of House GOP leadership — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (R-NC) — have endorsed the former president in the 2024 GOP primary."
Brooks reports, "Emmer had previously indicated in an interview with The Hill last year that he might not endorse a candidate in the primary. But after Scalise endorsed Emmer on Tuesday,(January 2), Emmer was the lone member of House GOP leadership who had not voiced support for Trump, which some political operatives and commentators had noted. Trump and Emmer have far from a cozy relationship."
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Emmer's endorsement of Trump is receiving a lot of reactions on X.
The Bulwark's Joe Perticone tweeted, "Trump deliberately tanked Emmer's speaker bid. 'I killed him,' was the leaked quote. So many of these guys love the humiliation."
Wilson, tweeting Brooks' article for The Hill, wrote, "Remember when you were on those anti-Trump calls in 2016, Tom?"
Pundit Doug Keegan tweeted, "BREAKING: Man claiming to be 'working to balance the budget and rein in government spending' endorses candidate that signed every omnibus and the CARES Act, adding $8 trillion to the national debt in four years."
Another pundit, Cindy L. Arnevik, wrote, "Ok MN. He did the right thing in 2021. But can you count on him to do it again in 2025? I don’t think so. Time to find a new candidate
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during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" to praise House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for getting his budget proposal passed by a very slim margin, a member of his caucus was confronted by hostDana Bashabout how the proposal will hurt his own constituents.
Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was on to make the case that it is up to President Joe Biden to meet with McCarthy to resolve their differences which led the CNN host to dig into the details of how the proposed budget will impact the state he represents
"Let me quickly look deep inside what you did get passed this past week," Bash began. "The bill would cut all non-defense discretionary funding by 22% — that is a lot of money and I want you to look at what the administration would say it would mean for your home state of Minnesota."
Putting a graphic up, she continued, "Thousands would lose food, rental assistance, and they would pay more for college. Outpatient VA appointments for veterans could be cut. This will make a big difference if, what you want, this bill actually would become law. A big difference in the lives of Americans, especially those living paycheck to paycheck. What do you say to them?"
"Well, I actually challenge it," Emmer bristled. "You know, you've got a president who was just told by the Washington Post that his claims on the deficit get 22 Pinocchios."
"They're just not true and what you just said is just not true either," he accused. "You should scrutinize what the administration is talking about."
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United States Representative Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) appeared on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation and was grilled by CBS anchor Margaret Brennan over a video that he posted to Twitter of him at a shooting range with a hashtag that read, "fire" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California).
Given that Pelosi's 82-year-old husband Paul was assaulted in their San Francisco home early Friday morning, Brennan asked Emmer, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, if that kind of messaging fuels violence.
The on-air conversation became quite heated (partial transcript courtesy of CBS News).
Brennan:
I want to ask you about this when it comes to political violence. On your Twitter feed, you posted this video we're going to show just a few days ago whereyou're firing a gun, and it says: 'Enjoyed exercising my Second Amendment rights. #FirePelosi.'
Why is there a gun in a political ad at all?
Emmer:
It wasn't an ad. I was –I was tweeting out – I was tweeting out something that I had just done.
Brennan:
Hashtag – or a tweet – hashtag #FirePelosi, with a weapon.
Emmer:
Well, now you're...
Brennan:
Wouldn't a pink slip be more fitting, if it's about firing her?
Emmer:
It's interesting, Margaret.
Brennan:
Why a gun?
Emmer attempted to deflect blame onto the shooting of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) by a deranged fan of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) at a congressional baseball game in 2017, triggering an argument:
It's interesting, Margaret, that we're talking about this, this morning, when, a couple of years back, when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Steve Scalise...
Brennan:
Which was horrendous and horrific...
Emmer:
... when a Bernie Sanders supporter...
Brennan:
... which is why we should be not...
Emmer:
... shot Steve Scalise...
Brennan:
... be putting weapons...
Emmer then alleged that he "never heard you or anyone else in the media trying to blame Democrats for what happened" and that "we need to stay focused on what we're all doing."
Brennan immediately corrected him:
We did extensive coverage of what happened to Steve Scalise.
But Bremmer denied it, sparking another kerfuffle:
Excuse me?
Brennan:
There was extensive coverage, sir.
Emmer:
But nobody tried to equate Democrats' rhetoric, people that say...
Brennan:
I'm not talking about your rhetoric. I'm talking about what you posted.
Emmer insisted that there is no difference:
It's the same.
Brennan:
You're shooting a gun. Our viewers just saw it.
Emmer:
Yeah, right.
Brennan:
Hashtag #FirePelosi.
Emmer:
Exercising our Second Amendment rights, having fun...
Brennan:
That's not a debate about the Second Amendment.
Emmer:
... shooting a gun. Yeah.
Brennan:
That's not a debate about the Second Amendment.
Emmer:
Yes, it is.
Brennan:
Hashtag #FirePelosi.
Emmer:
Yes, it is. I – I'm running the campaign operation.
By that point, Brennan was clearly frustrated with Emmer's obtuseness:
Do you not understand that that is suggestive to people who are in a bad state, and, in this current environment, how risky it is? As you're talking about...
Emmer:
Well, I disagree, Margaret.
Brennan:
... the importance of lowering the rhetoric...
Emmer:
I disagree with you.
Brennan:
... why do you leave that up?
Emmer repeated his false claim about Scalise:
Again, I never saw anyone after Steve Scalise was shot by a...
Brennan:
I'm talking about right now...
Emmer:
... Bernie Sanders supporter...
Brennan:
... what just is happening right now.
Emmer again accused Brennan of "trying to equate – equate Democrat rhetoric with those actions. Please don't do that."
Brennan simply replied, "okay."
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When President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law on November 15, 2021, members of his administration weren’t shy about describing the bill as “bipartisan” — as those who played major roles in crafting it had ranged from conservative Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina to centrist Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. But many far-right MAGA Republicans were quick to condemn the bill, slamming it as “socialism” and describing Tillis and others in the GOP who voted for it as RINOS: Republicans In Name Only.
Almost 11 months have passed since Biden signed the bill into law. And according to CNN reporters Edward-Isaac Dovere and Sarah Fortinsky, some of the Republicans who attacked the infrastructure bill last year have been asking for funds from it — including Rep. Tom Emmer.
“Last November, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota released a statement slamming the passage of the freshly approved infrastructure law he referred to as ‘President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar socialist wish list,’” Dovere and Fortinsky report. “Then, in June, Emmer — the House Republican campaign chairman leading attacks on Democrats for supporting the law — quietly submitted a wish of his own. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Emmer expressed his hearty support for a multimillion dollar grant to improve part of Highway 65 in his district.”
Other Republicans who went from condemning the infrastructure bill in 2021 to requesting funds from it in 2022, according to Dovere and Fortinsky, have included Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Florida. The reporters note that like Emmer, Rep. David Valadao of California “slammed the Biden law in public and then behind the scenes, asked for money from it.”
“Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, a leading Biden critic who explained his vote against what he called a 'phony' infrastructure bill by issuing a statement that ‘this bill only serves to advance the America Last’s socialist agenda, while completely lacking fiscal responsibility,’ wrote three separate letters between March and July advocating for projects in his district,” Dovere and Fortinsky explain. “They’d enhance quality of life, Gosar wrote. They’d ease congestion and boost the economy. They’d alleviate bottlenecks and improve rural living conditions…. Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr called the bill a ‘big government socialist agenda.’ He later wrote three letters of his own on behalf of three different projects, also citing their importance for safety and job growth.”
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Campaign Committee & Leadership PAC Combined Fundraising, 2013 - 2018
LAST REPORT: 03/31/2018
| Raised: | $5,254,051 |
|---|---|
| Spent: | $4,498,317 |
| Cash on hand: | $755,732 |
| Debts: | $0 |
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| Hubbard Broadcasting | $47,000 | $47,000 | $0 |
| Land O'Lakes | $32,700 | $17,200 | $15,500 |
| Slumberland | $31,200 | $31,200 | $0 |
| Majority Cmte PAC | $30,000 | $0 | $30,000 |
| Starkey Hearing Technologies | $29,900 | $29,900 | $0 |
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| Retired | $446,899 | $446,899 | $0 |
| Insurance | $243,404 | $69,904 | $173,500 |
| Securities & Investment | $237,350 | $93,850 | $143,500 |
| Republican/Conservative | $218,179 | $180,179 | $38,000 |
| Commercial Banks | $176,430 | $27,930 | $148,50 |
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If there is a silver lining to be gleaned from a night of storm clouds for liberals, it’s this: they will no longer have to utter the words “Rep. Michele Bachmann.” Nor “Congressman Steve Stockman.” Nor a host of other lawmakers with fringe right-wing views on gay people, science, poverty, and other important issues.
However, with every election comes a host of new politicians looking to fill their shoes. Unsurprisingly, there is no shortage of new Tea Party blood in Congress this year.
Incoming:
REP. TOM EMMER (R-MN)— Bachmann is leaving an outsized role to fill, but if anyone is up to the task, it’s the man succeeding her in Minnesota’s sixth congressional district. While running for governor in 2010, Emmer didn’t argue that the minimum wage was too low, but rather too high. He proposed slashing the minimum wage for waiters, a slightly more moderate version of his 2005 plan to eliminate the minimum wage for everyone. Emmer also promised to veto anti-bullying legislation, despite the fact that a number of gay teens had recently committed suicide in Minnesota. Finally, Emmer spearheaded a conservative push to “nullify” Obamacare, a unconstitutional tactic used that nearly triggered a civil war three decades before the actual war of secession.
REP. BARBARA COMSTOCK (R-VA) — As if the Koch Brothers didn’t have enough influence over American politics already, they now have one of their own former lobbyists in the halls of Congress. (Comstock has also lobbied for the military contractor Blackwater and the private prison giant GEO Group.) In the Virginia House of Delegates, Comstock led the push for a mandatory ultrasound law, which would have originally required women who wanted an abortion, even victims of rape or incest, to first undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. She was also one of the most stringent staff investigators during 1990s-era Republican-led inquiries into Bill Clinton.
REP. GLENN GROTHMAN (R-WI) — Grothman’s views are as prolific as they are extreme. He believes that women are paid less because “money is more important for men.” He thinks Martin Luther King Day shouldn’t be a holiday, nor should Kwanzaa because “almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa — just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people’s throats in an effort to divide Americans.” Grothman also doesn’t believe teachers should be allowed to mention homosexuality in the classroom, doesn’t believe workers should have a guaranteed weekend, and argued that voter IDmight help Republicans win a close presidential election.
REP. ALEX MOONEY (R-WV) — A former Maryland state senator who also once ran for the New Hampshire House, Mooney has settled on West Virginia as his new political base. During his stint as state senator, Mooney garnered a virulently anti-gay reputation, warning that LGBT people were attempting to be legally recognized as minorities, according to TPM. He also warned that advocates of gay rights were trying to curb free speech. “If you actually speak against the homosexual lifestyle, maybe from the pulpit if you’re a pastor then you’re in trouble,” he said in 2008.
REP. KEN BUCK (R-CO) — In 2010, Buck was one of a host of Tea Party Senate candidates, along with Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle, who helped Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Republicans didn’t make the same mistake this year, ushering in a deal for Buck to run in a conservative House district more suited to his extreme views. Those include the belief that being gay is a choice, just like being an alcoholic. He also declared in 2010 that voters should support him because, unlike his female opponent, “I do not wear high heels.” Finally, despite being a heavy military state with thousands of veterans, Buck once called for privatizing their health care.
REP. JODY HICE (R-GA) — If Hice had his druthers, the more than 100 women currently elected to Congress better have permission from their husbands to be there. “If the woman’s within the authority of her husband, I don’t see a problem,” he declared in 2004 when asked about the growing number of women in politics. Unsurprisingly, Hice’s radical views aren’t confined to gender equality. He doesn’t believe Muslims should be protected by the First Amendment because Islam is “not” a religion, but rather “a totalitarian way of life with a religious component.” He also believes homosexuality is a choice, states can (unconstitutionally) nullify federal laws like Obamacare, and the cause of the Civil War is still an open debate.
Outgoing:
REP. STEVE SOUTHERLAND (R-FL) — Southerland was one of just two incumbent Republican congressmen to lose in the general election, and it’s not difficult to see why. Even in the Republican-leaning Florida panhandle, Southerland’s antics were too much. He earned notoriety for his tireless crusade against food stamps, in which he sought to cut billions from assistance for poor people. Southerland also grabbed headlines for hosting a men-only fundraiserfor his campaign.
REP. STEVE STOCKMAN (R-TX) — Stockman is leaving Congress following his unsuccessful primary bid against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). His decision to bring Ted Nugent, who once threatened President Obama’s life, to the 2013 State of the Union is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his outrageous comments and actions. Some of the craziest include a campaign bumper stickerthat read “If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted”, raffling off an AR-15 assault rifle shortly after the Sandy Hook shooting (during which time he also threatened to impeach Obama), and mocking transgendered people as “change gender” and “that.”
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN) — Bachmann, a perennial Tea Party favorite, chose not to run for re-election this year. She earned a highly-controversial reputation during her stint in Congress, leading an anti-Muslim witch hunt that even unfairly targeted a top State Department official, propagating the false notion that Obamacare includes “death panels,” running a counseling center with her husband that utilized “ex-gay therapy,” and signing a pledge to ban all pornography.
REP. JOHN BARROW (D-GA) — Barrow, the last white Democrat from the Deep South, relished playing a Joe Lieberman-esque role among House Democrats, frequently giving bipartisan cover for conservative causes. For example, he insinuated in a 2012
that liberals were going to come and take people’s guns away. He also spearheaded an effort to prevent action that would curb the coal industry’s ability to emit greenhouse gasses without limits. Barrow was the most conservative Democrat in Congress, voting with Republican leaders on approximately half of all bills.
REP. PAUL BROUN (R-GA) — Broun departs Congress after losing Georgia’s crowded Republican Senate primary, though not without leaving quite the legacy. Less than a week after the 2008 election, Broun said that he was afraid that Obama would create a Marxist dictatorship. He also compared the IRS to al-Qaeda, wanted to defund the Voting Rights Act, NPR, the Department of Education, and the Department of Energy, and was one of a small handful of Republicans who refused to consider any version of the Violence Against Women Act. Broun also said he would only consider legislation that fits “Judeo-Christian Biblical principles,” called evolution and the Big Bang Theory “lies straight from the pit of hell,” and came out as a birther.
REP. PHIL GINGREY (R-GA) — Like Broun, Gingrey ran for, and lost, the Republican Senate nomination. Gingrey will be remembered for a number of controversies, including defending former Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) infamous “legitimate rape” comments, calling them “partly right,” dismissing pre-existing medical conditions as nothing more than “hang nails and fever blisters,” and denouncing the very concept of reaching out to minority voters as “worse than sad.”
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Gianforte Voted For An Attack on Minnesota’s National Forests. Representative Tom Emmer (R-MN):{ sponsored H.R. 3905, the Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act, which would allow mining on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and undermine key environmental protections for the Boundary Waters, Voyageurs National Park, and the Superior and Chippewa National Forests. Among many harmful provisions, H.R. 3905 would waive normal environmental review and public input under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and grant two federal mineral leases that were denied by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and this legislation would add significant barriers to designate national monuments under the Antiquities Act in Minnesota’s national forests. On November 30, the House approved H.R. 3905 by a vote of 216-204. Greg Gianforte voted YES. The pro-environment position was NO. :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:[House Vote #643, 11/30/2017:{; }:LCV 2017 Scorecard:{]}:
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