While many Senate Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have condemned the Republican National Committee (RNC) over its censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hasn’t found his spine to call out the pro-trump wing of the party.
In a resolution censuring Kinzinger and Cheney for participating in the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Captol, the RNC wrote: “Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
“That’s not the job of the RNC,” McConnell said at a weekly press conference. “Traditionally the view of the national party committee is, we support all members of our party, regardless of their positions on some issues,” he added.
“Nothing could be further from the truth than to consider the attack on the seat of democracy as legitimate political discourse,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said of the resolution.
Meanwhile, McCarthy claimed that the RNC resolution is just being misunderstood when they called the attack on the US Capitol “legitimate political discourse.”
Indeed. McCarthy wants you to believe that the RNC didn’t mean to say what they said.
McCarthy claimed that the RNC was not referring to the rioters who caused damage during the deadly attack.
“What they [the RNC] were talking about was the six RNC members who [the] Jan. 6 [committee] has subpoenaed who weren’t even here, who were in Florida that day,” McCarthy said, ignoring the resolution’s reference to “ordinary citizens.”
As noted by the Huffington Post, “It’s not clear which RNC members received subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. The RNC’s resolution condemning Cheney and Kinzinger doesn’t condemn the Capitol riot, and doesn’t specify any particular action the committee has taken except that it seems designed to “buoy the Democrat Party’s bleak prospects in the upcoming midterm elections.”
