It’s a political base problem few are willing to admit.
Republicans are imploding over Jeffrey Epstein, and the evidence is hard to miss. The panic among GOP lawmakers is unlike anything I’ve seen in a decade of reporting on Congress.
Republicans can’t keep their heads down and trust that the base will keep holding them up, because the Republican base is what’s causing the current panic.
Far-right lawmakers are anxiously trying to navigate around the Scylla of Trump and congressional leadership pushing them to hold off on the Epstein issue, and the Charybdis of the hot-headed multitudes who lifted them into office after getting them to promise to reveal every dark secret of the Epstein case.
There were the two on the House Oversight committee who voted with the Democratic members last week to subpoena all the Epstein files.
It was three actually, but if two of the people are Nancy Mace and Scott Perry, I can promise you it has nothing to do with the tide turning.
I think I misunderstood your “changed their vote” comment. I mistook it for Congressional voting records but after seeing someone else’s reply I’m guessing you meant the voting public.
Right on, yeah I meant more among the populace, or I would also accept meaningful change from the politicians on that side of things. I thought about clarifying that afterwards but didn’t want to seem like I was moving goalposts are itching for a fight or something. I just see these articles as the same as the last 10 years of ‘this time he’s really gonna have to face the consequences.’ The one I hate most of all is ‘Roberts privately expresses concern over the publics image of the supreme court.’ Like, no, he really fucking doesn’t.
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I will throw in my own anecdata that I have relatives and in-laws who historically voted Republican who have at least outwardly said they have been changing how they vote starting either 2016 or 2020.