The fight over the GOP identity
1 big thing
Axios
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🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today. It's Thursday, February 4th. I'm Eric |
| 0:08.7 | Appendi, filling in for Nailaburu. Here's what we're talking about today. Why |
| 0:14.0 | everyone is mad at the Robin Hood investing app. Plus, how Tampa Bay is prepping |
| 0:19.6 | for a pandemic Super Bowl. But first, the fight over the identity of the |
| 0:24.0 | Republican Party is today's one big thing. |
| 0:28.9 | Trumpism has the Republican Party fighting over its own identity. Last night, |
| 0:34.2 | after a tense hours-long meeting about the future of the party, House |
| 0:38.6 | Republicans voted to keep Liz Cheney in leadership. That was following calls |
| 0:42.6 | for her removal after she voted to impeach former President Trump. And at the |
| 0:46.7 | same time, the party is split over Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor |
| 0:50.3 | Green. She's well-known for supporting QAnon and other conspiracy theories in |
| 0:54.4 | Congress. And today, the House is going to vote on whether or not to remove |
| 0:57.6 | her from her seat on the Education Committee. Margaret Tallah is a |
| 1:01.1 | managing editor for politics at Axios. And she's here to tell us more about |
| 1:04.6 | where the Republican Party is headed. Good morning, Margaret. Good morning, |
| 1:07.9 | Erica. So, Margaret, you just wrapped up an Axios survey monkey poll taking the |
| 1:12.2 | pulse of voters. How are Republican voters feeling about all this? I mean, you |
| 1:17.0 | really can't read this split any other way. Right now, most Republican voters in |
| 1:22.1 | the United States are feeling favorably towards Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie |
| 1:27.0 | Taylor Green. And unfavorably, towards Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell, |
| 1:31.0 | Kevin McCarthy is up 22%. Marjorie Taylor Green is also in positive territory, |
| 1:36.5 | 10%. Mitch McConnell, negative 15, net favorable, |
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