And so it begins. After Home Republicans tried to get insurrectionist supporting and election denier Rep. Jim Jordan elected to Speaker, Jason Blazakis, a Democratic Congressional candidate in New Jersey, used it to assault the Republican freshman Rep incumbent, Rep. Tom Kean.
Tom Kean’s vote for Jim Jordan as Speaker reveals who he really is. Kean’s vote permits the far-right fringes of the Republican celebration and follows the marching orders of the disgraced former president, Donald Trump,” Blazakis stated in an announcement despatched to PoliticusUSA.
“From trying to overturn the 2020 election to refusing important assist for 9/11 victims to supporting a nationwide abortion ban, Jim Jordan is without doubt one of the most excessive, least bipartisan members of Congress and this vote represents a deeply problematic shift within the GOP. After weeks of dysfunction, Tom Kean was unable to ship and caved to the MAGA extremists in his celebration, leaving our nation and New Jerseyans to pay the worth.”
Phew. All of that’s anticipated, nevertheless it additionally carries loads of weight, particularly from Blazakis, who has labored as a nationwide safety official who has fought to guard America’s nationwide safety in opposition to extremists. He labored in counterterrorism the State Division for a decade who just lately had the distinction of being sanctioned by Vladimir Putin for his feedback about Russia’s unlawful conflict in Ukraine.
Kean is in what was described because the state’s most competitive congressional contest in 2022.
Right here’s a snapshot of polling through 538 in the previous couple of years of Kean versus his Democratic predecessor:
538 Kean New Jersey
Jim Jordan doesn’t have a superb historical past as a legislator. He’s not a severe particular person. Jordan is extra about self-aggrandizement than really getting work completed for the folks, and that’s why he hasn’t handed a single invoice within the 16 years he’s been in workplace.
Former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone called Jim Jordan an insurrectionist and said Jordan has no place being second in line to the presidency.
Speaker Jordan? Simply say NO.@AccountableGOP pic.twitter.com/om9N9irdCp
— Invoice Kristol (@BillKristol) October 13, 2023
Republicans who backed an insurrectionist can anticipate much more of this. Every vulnerable House Republican will have to answer for their vote on Jordan. If swing district Republicans don’t handle to talk up loudly in opposition to an election denier turning into their chief, they’re going to get pummeled with one of many very issues each Republican and Democratic voters rejected within the 2022 midterms.
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