House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy lamented GOP messaging issues but did not condemn anti-Muslim remarks.
House Democrats called for Boebert to be removed from her committee assignments.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., attempted to downplay the tumultuous week in the Republican conference on Friday, acknowledging only that some of his hard-right members distract from the GOP midterm message in their feuds with Democrats and each other but not condemning the anti-Muslim rhetoric from his member that set off the most recent controversies.
The infighting this week began when Boebert's remarks that likened Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to a terrorist first appeared on social media. Boebert tweeted an apology to"anyone in the Muslim community I offended" but refused Omar's request to make a direct public apology to her."She apologized publicly, she apologized personally," McCarthy suggested of Boebert's comments, defending the lawmaker.
The second feud of the week broke out soon after between Greene and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., a freshman who has loudly and repeatedly criticized some of her far-right colleagues.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy holds his weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Dec. 3, 2021.
The escalating series of attacks left moderate Republicans grumbling and worried that McCarthy's refusal to publicly condemn his far-right members' antics could further embolden them and inject more chaos into the midterms and hurt Republicans' increasingly likely chances of taking the House next year.
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