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Senate Republicans have gone from salivating over next year's electoral map to shedding conservative tears as they watch their incompetent counterparts in the House sink their brand ahead of 2024.
“My message to fellow Republicans is people elect us to lead, and they’re not leading right now,” Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina told The Hill. Tillis called the House GOP majority's ongoing failure to choose a speaker an “embarrassment.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia was even more blunt.
“Get a leader; you were elected to lead,” she said said. “It’s not good for the party’s brand.”
Capito added, “We can’t keep aggravating each other within the conference or we’re going to end up A) not getting anywhere B) losing, and it’s not good for the country.”
Concur. On all three.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies have been working overtime the past several weeks to send a countermessage portraying Senate Republicans as serious people with at least relatively mainstream views.
