GOP lawmakers returning from their Doral retreat are voicing deep frustration about the party’s lack of accomplishments and are divided over how to spend their remaining time in power.

House Republican leaders are publicly projecting confidence about their chances of holding the majority in the midterms. Privately, many of their members sound far less certain.

Gathered this week at a Trump-owned resort in Doral, Florida, to coordinate strategy for the rest of the legislative year and the looming campaign season, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struck an upbeat tone, telling reporters, “Do not bet against the House Republicans” as they try to maintain their narrow edge in the chamber.

But beneath the public optimism, there is deep frustration — and, in some cases, outright pessimism — simmering inside Johnson’s conference.

“No one thinks we’re keeping the majority except for the speaker,” one House Republican, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal sentiment, told MS NOW.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You know that Bernie lost the primary because the DNC cheated for Hilary, right?

    Yes those documents were leaked by Russians. But they still existed. (Mostly, at least.)

    The entire primary set up also is pretty biased. We don’t know how Bernie would have done outside a couple states because most states never got a primary vote.

    Further, Hilary was soft amid the same people that were passionate for Bernie.

    He might’ve been “boring” but he actually had a chance at winning and the DNC decided to fuck that up.

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      6 hours ago

      It wasn’t primarily the DNC.

      The biggest "cheat’ was the media lying about superdelegates as though they had already voted.