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The head of the Conservative Political Action Committee on Saturday attacked critics noting CPAC's stage looks like a Nazi symbol.
Matt Schlapp made his denial after "Nazi" trended nationwide on Twitter as users discussed the stage looking like an Odal rune symbol.
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="efd033b27cf12204a216bc22f54b5174" id="d82d2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1365721449479208962"><div style="margin:1em 0">And by "resembles," I mean "is identical to."</div> — Ilyse Hogue (@Ilyse Hogue)<a href="https://twitter.com/ilyseh/statuses/1365721449479208962">1614448342.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8f027d736ba291578791fdf588ddce0b" id="ae00c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1365668005015916550"><div style="margin:1em 0">Would be easy for Matt Schlapp to address this today, apologize and make some small changes to the stage.
Would… https://t.co/Ou0P1aethh</div> — Simon Rosenberg (@Simon Rosenberg)<a href="https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/statuses/1365668005015916550">1614435599.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>Schlapp, however, did not apologize. Instead he said, "stage design conspiracies are outrageous and slanderous."</p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e4b82d5bce7b3ccec4dcf89c775ab0d8" id="e7146"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1365765584810565636"><div style="margin:1em 0">Stage design conspiracies are outrageous and slanderous. We have a long standing commitment to the Jewish community… https://t.co/cupHpMKVje</div> — Matt Schlapp (@Matt Schlapp)<a href="https://twitter.com/mschlapp/statuses/1365765584810565636">1614458864.0</a></blockquote></div>
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On Saturday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that he was confident Republicans would take control of the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections.
"I will bet my house," he added.
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1365758785957081097" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1365758785957081097&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2650825307%23publish&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 523px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>The party outside the White House nearly always gains seats in the House during midterm elections. The only postwar midterm elections where this did not happen were 1998, when Republican efforts to attack the popular President Bill Clinton generated public backlash, and 2002, when panic over the 9/11 terrorist attacks convinced voters to support the Republicans already in power. Moreover, Democrats have an unusually narrow House majority, requiring Republicans to net only five seats.</p><p>Nevertheless, there are obstacles to a GOP takeover of the chamber. Unlike in 2010, where Democrats had <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/how-the-urban-rural-divide-shaped-the-modern-congress" target="_blank">dozens of vulnerable rural House seats</a>, the current Democratic majority is made up of suburban seats that have trended away from the GOP. Moreover, while redistricting may benefit Republicans who enjoy an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/gerrymander-census-democrats-republicans.html" target="_blank">advantage in state legislatures</a>, there are <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/28/census-redistricting-delays-2022-house-463388" target="_blank">long delays in Census data</a> that could push out redistricting in some states past the midterms in unpredictable ways.</p>
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Alabama GOP advances resolution supporting America's withdrawal from United Nations
February 27, 2021
On Saturday, Al.com reported that the Alabama Republican Party is moving forward with a resolution calling for the United States to terminate its membership with the United Nations.
"The resolution, one of about a dozen the party will consider today, cites what it said were U.N. policies that support abortion, disarmament of citizens, and the influence of socialist countries," said the report. "It says the U.N. opposes American policies in the Middle East and supports climate control policies that would wipe out jobs."
<p>Various Republicans over the years have called for the U.S. to separate from the U.N., usually based on conspiracy theories about a shadow global government encroaching on U.S. sovereignty.</p><p>In 2017, Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-sovereignty-restoration-act-us-withdraw-un-2017-1" target="_blank">introduced a bill</a> in the House to do so, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, which gathered co-sponsorship from a number of Republicans including Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Thomas Massie (R-KY).</p><p>Going further back, in 2014, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2014/06/iowa-republican-vows-to-overturn-phony-un-agenda-21-plot-to-take-away-private-property/" target="_blank">called</a> for withdrawing from the U.N. during her first campaign, falsely claiming that <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/outcomedocuments/agenda21" target="_blank">Agenda 21</a>, a non-binding U.N. resolution encouraging sustainable development, was a secret plot to abolish Americans' property rights.</p>
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