Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good's recount battle to remain in Congress puts the archconservative group at a crossroads.
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., speaks during a news conference at near Manhattan criminal court, May 16, 2024, in New York. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed the Republican opponent of a Virginia congressman …Rep. Bob Good, who assumed the chairmanship of the Freedom Caucus in January, is on the losing end of a GOP primary race in Virginia, though a recount he called for won’t reach its conclusion for several weeks. If the result remains the same, Mr.
“What kind of a party are we going to be?” Mr. Good told The Washington Times. “And I think my race was a decision between those two visions.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who was ousted from the Freedom Caucus last year, has become a leading critic. The House Freedom Caucus began in 2015 as an offshoot of the Tea Party movement, organized by lawmakers disillusioned with the Republican Study Committee, the largest House GOP conservative caucus.
“They’ve lost their footing of where they started, and they’ve gone too far,” Mr. Miller said. “And to me, almost like the Democrats, they have no plan. Or they just continue to act and to try to get their own way because in my opinion, for a lot of them, it’s all about I, I, I — and not we.” “We’ve forced a bunch of the policy decisions and fights,” Mr. Roy said. “We’ve got a lot of really good amendments that are offered as the Republican position. That’s all being driven by the Freedom Caucus, and I’m proud of that.”
“For an organization to be productive, it can’t be about resentments,” Mr. Schweikert said. “I think sometimes this place has lost its moral compass on making people’s lives better. That has to be the fixation, not retribution for offenses.”
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