House GOP’s possible newcomers include outsiders, extremists

The Associated Press ^ | November 1, 2022 | By LISA MASCARO (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least three Republicans running for the U.S. House attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and made their way toward the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection to stop Joe Biden’s election.

Countless other House Republican candidates are skeptics and deniers of the 2020 election lost by Donald Trump.

There are veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, small-business owners and the most geographically, racially and culturally diverse group of Republicans seeking House seats in the modern era — many of whom, like Trump in 2016, are political newcomers who have never held elected office.

All told, the House GOP’s Class of 2022 midterm candidates includes a new generation of political outsiders, populists and some extremists who could bring an intensity to Capitol Hill. They would be an untested and potentially unruly majority if Republicans win the House in the Nov. 8 election.

Republicans are increasingly confident they will win control of the House, confronting Democrats on a widening map. The party in the White House traditionally suffers setbacks in the president’s midterm, and Democrats are weighed down by Biden’s lagging approval ratings and voter unease over inflation’s grip on the economy.

In many ways, Republicans are reassembling the Trump coalition with a well-funded but unusual alliance of candidates reflecting his supporters: charismatic Trump-styled media stars, “America First” military veterans, women, minorities and what’s left of the GOP’s traditional conservatives.

[imabadboy99]

And they’re not just doing this to freaks that belong in asylums. They’re doing this to children! These people doing this belong in prison if not worse!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

America First is a bad thing according to the AP!

[TomGuy]

They couldn’t be more of outsiders and extremists than the Dem’s ‘Squad’.

[volunbeer]

The founding fathers were “extremists” in every sense of the word as defined by their time and ours now.

They rejected the status quo and pushed God-given freedom as the ultimate right of every citizen.

How far we have come and how prescient were their warnings.

[llevrok]

By comparison, The “Squad” was considered mainstream and not outsiders nor extremists when they were elected.

Nice try AP

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hey Lisa. Blow it out your .... Nobody can be as bad as your boy, Jo Jo’s freak sideshow. I mean, “Come on, Man.” Now that you’re “woke”, it’s time to wake up and rejoin the real world.

[real saxophonist]

I see that word ‘extremist’ used a lot in the Colorado commercials.

[proust]

Very important point. “Lifers” consolidate power.

[I want the USA back]

This is what the left does. It smears and attempts to destroy good, normal people.

It must really be hard to be a leftist. When a moderate liberal buys a social media platform, leftists can’t take the loss of one of their exclusive propaganda machines and melt into a hysterical puddle.

[imabadboy99]

Something absolutely has to be done about the media in this country. Most of them are using PUBLIC airwaves to push communist propaganda and to smear normal Americans. Hopefully the new congress and Pres. Trump will address this immediately!!!

[pas]

All of the Dem include extremists so what is their point.

[HYPOCRACY]

Wakanda Forever!

[Carl Vehse]

The Associated Press considers Congressional newcomers as outsiders and extremists if the newcomers are not lying, perverted, murdering, traitorous Demonicrats.

[RatRipper]

I guess when you are a Commie Rat, just about any reasonable, thinking human that can exercise good judgment looks to be an extremist. I am barfing sick of their ridiculous rhetoric.

[Timber Rattler]

Can’t have citizen participation in the election process and new blood coming into the House of Representatives, now can we?

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Republican in occupied CA]

“Some claimed”?
Geeze, say a word against the invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan around here in the early 2000s and you’d get pilloried as a jihad-loving extremist. “Conservatives” have been just as war hungry as ‘liberals’ for longer than any of us have been alive. There are *lots* of things to hate the Left on, but that one has four fingers pointing back. That was the real break Trump made; there was a LOT of jingoistic cheering for both wars against Iraq and what we did in Afghanistan.

[V K Lee]

Lisa, yes there are a good many newcomers and outsiders
riding on President Trump's coat tails.
It has become increasingly clear to we observers that
TPTB are old, decrepit, and have absolutely no tangible
new ideas. Man was not told to nest once elected. He is
there to work FOR WTP in making America great again.

IT IS TIME FOR TERM LIMITS!! DJT promised us he would tip the apple cart. This proves to be the result of his efforts. Another promise fulfilled.

[Nateman]

...and some extremists who could bring an intensity to Capitol Hill.

Extremist to the Asspress is a Republican that will actually fight as hard as a Democrat.

[Flick Lives]

There are veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, small-business owners and the most geographically, racially and culturally diverse group of Republicans seeking House seats in the modern era ...

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I thought Libs liked diversity.