Can the GOP Save Itself? w/Fmr Rep. Barbara Comstock
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🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As the GOP is more and more committed to the cult of Donald Trump, a group of prominent “rational” Republicans are asking their party to leave Trump and the Big Lie behind. If not, they threaten to start a third party. One founder of the group is two-term former Northern Virginia Congresswoman Barbara Comstock. Bill quizzes her on the new group, Liz Cheney’s ouster, Kevin McCarthy and if the party can rid itself of Trumpism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:10.3 | If you follow the news at all, you know that Republicans have spent a lot of time lately whining about cancel culture. |
| 0:18.2 | In fact, one evening last week, House Republicans spent hours complaining about the |
| 0:23.4 | cancel of Happy Lapieu, Dr. Seuss, and Goya Foods, among others. And then the very next morning, |
| 0:30.6 | they voted to cancel one of their own to dump number three House leader, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, because she refused to |
| 0:40.2 | accept Donald Trump's big lie that he and not Joe Biden won the last election. Cheney vows she's |
| 0:48.5 | not going away quietly. She said she'll do anything she can to prevent Trump from getting close to the Oval Office again, |
| 0:56.7 | but her ouster has widened the rift among Republicans about where the Republican Party goes from here. |
| 1:05.0 | Must it remain tied to Trump, or is it time to move on without him? |
| 1:14.9 | Among leading Republicans who argue it's time to move on without Trump, and one of the founders of a new anti-Trump movement among Republicans is former |
| 1:21.6 | Congresswoman Barbara Comstock, who served two terms representing Virginia's 10th Congressional |
| 1:27.4 | District. We caught up with Congresswoman Comstock from her who served two terms representing Virginia's 10th congressional district. |
| 1:28.5 | We caught up with Congresswoman Comstock from her home in Northern Virginia. |
| 1:33.9 | Congresswoman, so let me ask you first. |
| 1:36.9 | What was your reaction to the action by the House caucus last week to boost |
| 1:43.8 | Liz Cheney out of her post of leadership in the caucus? |
| 1:48.3 | Well, I was clearly not pleased with that. |
| 1:52.2 | I think it was a mistake. |
| 1:54.2 | I have known Liz for over 20 years, |
| 1:58.0 | and she's a person of great conviction. |
| 2:01.2 | And since January 6th, when she spoke out very forcefully about, you know, how tragic that was |
| 2:11.0 | and how all the unconstitutional behavior and comments by the president, but even before |
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