The GOP Maryland governor said that his party has become a 'sort of circular firing squad.'
"I think they're concerned about retaliation from the president. They're, they're concerned about, you know, being attacked within the party," Hogan said of House Republican efforts to oust Cheney as the chair of House Republican Conference."It just bothers me that you have to swear fealty to the 'dear leader' or you get kicked out of the party, it just doesn't make any sense.
Hogan said that the opposition to Cheney and other Republicans critical of Trump is"sort of a circular firing squad where we're just attacking members of our own party." The governor remarked that Republicans should instead be"focusing on solving problems or standing up and having an argument that we can debate the Democrats on some of the things that the Biden administration is pushing through.
When Trump took office in 2017, Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the White House. But as Hogan pointed out, the GOP went on to lose the House in the 2018 midterm elections. Then in 2020, Democrats took control of the White House and subsequently secured narrow control of the Senate in a January runoff held in Georgia. Despite this record of losing under Trump, Republican leaders appear to be aligning themselves more closely with the former president.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to repeatedly take aim at Republicans he views as disloyal or not sufficiently loyal to him. Jason Miller, a spokesperson for Trump, told
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