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Illinois' GOP candidates for governor have to campaign in Trump’s shadow, maintain tough-on-crime message

CHICAGO — Illinois’ Republican candidates for governor are seeing their efforts to focus on local issues clouded by the overwhelming shadow of former President Donald Trump and his control over the national GOP.

Chicago Tribune

Republican rift exposes choice: With Trump or against him

A rift over the Republican National Committee's symbolic vote to censure former President Donald Trump’s House GOP critics has exposed the competing forces fighting to control the party

The Independent UK

The politics of investigating the Jan. 6 riots

It is understandable that a party still dominated by Trump and his supporters does not want people to dwell on certain facts. It is likewise understandable that the opposing party wants to constantly remind voters of them.

Chicago Sun-Times

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GOP leaders: Trapped by Trump

McConnell and McCarthy, though spineless and soulless, would love to move on. But a Certain Someone won't let them

Salon

The Jan. 6 Capitol attacks offer a reminder – distrust in government has long been part of Republicans' playbook

The Republican National Committee has legitimized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. The RNC declared on Feb. 4, 2022, that the insurrection and preceding events were “legitimate political discourse” — an assertion that Sen. Mitch McConnell soon after countered, saying that it was a “violent insurrection.”

The Conversation

First Thing: Macron claims Putin gave him personal assurances on Ukraine

French president’s statement that Russian leader vowed not to escalate crisis met with scepticism in Kyiv. Plus, A-ha moments could trigger fast climate action

The Guardian - UK

Partisan Politics Cloud the Capitol Riot's Significance

Neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an honest account of what happened that day.

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Mitch McConnell rebukes RNC for censuring party members investigating ‘violent insurrection’

The Republican National Committee chastised Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, irking the Senate minority leader

The Guardian - US

Sen. Mitch McConnell denounces censure of 2 House Republicans; Rep. Kevin McCarthy dodges the question

WASHINGTON — Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said it was “not the job” of the Republican National Committee to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the House investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which he described as a “violent insurrection” in contrast to…

Los Angeles Times

Sen. Mitch McConnell slams GOP whitewash of Jan. 6 attack: ‘A violent insurrection’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced the Republican National Committee for suggesting the attack on the Capitol was “legitimate political discourse” and said it was wrong to censure lawmakers who joined the congressional probe of the insurrection.

Tribune News Service

Republican leader rebukes RNC for censure of Jan 6 investigators

Senior US senator rejects RNC claim January 6 was ‘legitimate political discourse’; calls it ‘a violent insurrection’.

Al Jazeera

McConnell: It is "not the job" of the RNC to single out GOP lawmakers

"Traditionally, the view of the national party committee is that we support all members of our party."

Axios

McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 ‘violent insurrection’

The Senate minority leader is the highest-ranking Republican to criticise the censure of Reps Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger

The Independent UK

McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is criticizing the Republican National Committee for censuring two House GOP lawmakers investigating the “violent insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it’s not the party’s job to decide whom to support

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Kevin McCarthy dodges questions on whether Capitol riot was ‘legitimate political discourse’

RNC resolution calls congressional probe into Jan 6 ‘persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse’

The Independent UK

Trump’s 2020 election lies could lead to civil war, warns Adam Kinzinger

‘We may have differences as left and right, but we have to bridge those differences because our basic survival is at stake, the basic survival of this democracy’

The Guardian - US

Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff evacuated from DC school over bomb threat – as it happened

Second gentleman escorted by security from Dunbar high school in Washington

Chicago Sun-Times

When revisionist history is turned into truth

Calling the Jan. 6 riots "legitimate political discourse," as the censure of Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney does, is nothing more than a willful denial of reality.

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The Guardian - US

Romney won’t criticise niece for calling Trump lies and Capitol riot ‘legitimate political discourse’

Senator says he has texted with ‘terrific’ Ronna McDaniel, RNC chair who oversaw censure of Cheney and Kinzinger

Salon

Mike Pence finally speaks up — too late

Pence's performance may reassure the media — but RNC pronounces Jan. 6 riot "legitimate political discourse"

Chicago Sun-Times

RNC censure of Kinzinger, Cheney could backfire for Illinois Republicans

The conservative National Review found the censure wording "political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics."

The Independent UK

Trump's GOP: Party further tightens tie to former president

As officials gathered in Utah this week for the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, party leaders left no doubt that the GOP is choosing to serve former President Donald Trump and his political interests before the next presidential election

Los Angeles Times

RNC votes to censure GOP members of Jan. 6 probe, moves closer to debate withdrawal

Republican National Committee members passed a resolution on Friday to formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois over their work on a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an unprecedented rebuke of sitting members of Congress.

Salon

RNC censure spurs Romney family battle

"Shame," Mitt Romney wrote of the RNC's effort to censure two of its members. The Committee is chaired by his niece

The Guardian - US

Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’

Party censures Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the Capitol attack House panel, as Pence says ‘Trump is wrong’

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