Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Hakeem Jeffries (NY 8) 212 49.1%
Republican Jim Jordan (OH 4) 200 46.3%
Republican Steve Scalise (LA 1) 7 1.6%
Republican Kevin McCarthy (CA 20) 6 1.4%
Republican Lee Zeldin 3 0.7%
Republican Tom Cole (OK 4) 1 0.2%
Republican Tom Emmer (MN 6) 1 0.2%
Republican Mike Garcia (CA 27) 1 0.2%
Republican Thomas Massie (KY 4) 1 0.2%

Note: official party nominees in bold.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Bad take. We aren’t covering for their inability to govern. We are exploiting their inability to govern by forcing them to accept a candidate they don’t really want.

    And if they aren’t willing to accept that candidate, we keep comparing their horseshit speaker to the upstanding hero we could have had.

    6 Republicans who don’t want to reject a war hero either divide the party, or force it to back that reasonable candidate.

    Instead, we’re going to get someone an inch closer to Matt Gaetz. Fuck. That. Shit.

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      1 year ago

      I get the impulse, but the difference between a democrat (Jeffries), and someone nominated by a democrat (MOH recipient/etc) to the GOP is minimal if not non-existent.

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        If you’re talking about Republican politicians, I would agree. If you’re talking about Republican voters, I strongly disagree. The reverence our current and former soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have for MoH recipients is stronger than the distrust we have for the major parties. I don’t see Republican politicians being able to spin war heroes into political hacks.