In the latest sign of division among House Republicans, attendance was “abysmal” at the House GOP’s annual retreat this year.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia—For their annual retreat, House Republicans traveled to the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia this week to rally around a message to defend their House majority and to settle on atrain transporting members to West Virginia crashing into a truck
Another Republican who didn’t attend said they just wanted to spend time with their family after being gone for so long. But if lawmakers were playing from the same sheet, not everyone was hitting the same notes. When The Daily Beast asked one member if they found the retreat helpful, this lawmaker’s assessment was simple: “not really.” Another member quipped that they wanted to hang out with the press because they would “probably learn more” than they would have in the members-only meetings.
“I don't know if it's divided,” one of the previously mentioned members said of the GOP conference, “but it's certainly not together.”
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