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GOP’s McCarthy risks Trump backlash on ‘you should resign’ audio

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy sought to head off backlash within the party that could dash his hopes of becoming speaker next year after an audio tape exposed he told colleagues he’d urge the then-President Donald Trump to resign after last year’s Capitol insurrection.

Tribune News Service

Explosive new audio reveals McCarthy did want Trump to resign after Jan 6 insurrection despite denials

Audio was released just hours after McCarthy dismissed reports on call as ‘false’ and part of ‘liberal agenda’

The Independent UK

Tape shows McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign over Jan. 6 riot

If Trump turned on him, McCarthy's path to the Speaker's office could be imperiled by Trump loyalists in the GOP caucus.

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Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign

The Independent UK

NY Times report: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign

The Independent UK

McCarthy wanted Twitter to ban GOPers

"We can't put up with that," McCarthy said. "Can't they take their Twitter accounts away, too?"

Salon

Top two Republicans blamed Trump for Capitol attack, book says

New book reveals post-insurrection anger from Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, who said of Trump: ‘I’ve had it with this guy’

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Details emerge of Republican leaders’ fury at Trump after Jan 6: ‘I’ve had it with this guy’

‘What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it’

The Independent UK

GOP leaders caved on vow to cancel Trump

McCarthy dropped his vow to demand Trump’s resignation while Mitch hoped Democrats would “take care” of it

Salon

Police video shows trooper taking Madison Cawthorn’s driver’s license

The video is just the latest in Mr Cawthorn’s troubles

The Independent UK

GOP lawmakers vote remotely more often after initial scorn

Just seven Republicans joined most Democrats to use remote voting in the House when it began two years ago as the pandemic erupted

The Independent UK

House GOP voting remotely more often after initial scorn

Just seven Republicans, along with most Democrats, used remote voting in the House when voting-from-somewhere-else was first allowed two years ago as the pandemic erupted

The Independent UK

Trump targets outraise challengers, unlike some other incumbents

New campaign finance disclosures show several House incumbents raising less than potential opponents, but not those targeted by Trump.

Roll Call

Florida judge voids national mask mandate for public transportation – as it happened

Ruling says Covid-19 mitigation measure exceeds authority of federal health officials – follow the day’s politics news

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Salon

McCarthy blames Biden for Putin invasion

McCarthy once said withholding military aid from Ukraine was the "rightful thing to do" — but now he's flipped

Los Angeles Times

Biden's approval rating improves slightly in California, but inflation looms large

LOS ANGELES — Roughly 6 in 10 California voters give President Joe Biden poor marks on his handling of inflation, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, even as his overall job approval marginally improved in the last two months.

Axios

House GOP sets its sights on midterm races in Biden country

Republicans have already seized a lead in generic congressional ballot polling.

The Independent UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene defends Jan 6 because it ‘only happened one time’ as she berates journalist on video

Georgia Republican tells reporter Americans are ‘sick and tired of the drama from all you people that run around the Capitol’

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The Guardian - US

Liz Cheney disputes report January 6 panel split over Trump criminal referral

Republican on House select committee, however, refuses to say whether Trump should be referred for criminal charges

The Independent UK

Madison Cawthorn pulls himself out of his wheelchair during Trump rally in North Carolina

Cawthorn frequently used this move on the campaign trail and elsewhere

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘A snowflake and a sociopath at the same time’

Late-night hosts discuss Greene calling the cops on Kimmel, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation and two more Trump aides held in contempt of Congress

Los Angeles Times

Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more

WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.

Ballotpedia

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 17 (April 7, 2022)

In this issue: 48 candidates running in Alaska’s special U.S. House election and a rundown of recent Senate forums in Pennsylvania

The Independent UK

Scavino, Navarro held in contempt of Congress in 1/6 probe

The House has voted to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress over their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

Salon

No Gosar at white nationalist event now

UPDATED: The Congressman's campaign now says he doesn't know how he was listed as a guest at the April 20 gathering

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