Republicans in the House of Representatives are currently leaderless after Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) ouster as House Speaker on Tuesday.
Politico now reports that many Republicans are worried about how this chaos will impact them in the 2024 elections, especially given that there's no guarantee the next GOP leader will be able to hold the caucus together at all.
"What the [Rep. Matt] Gaetz crowd doesn’t get — and they may not care — is that you can’t beat a nearly senile president with a completely dysfunctional party," Steven Law, who runs the Senate Leadership Fund super PAC, told the publication.
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This was far from the only spicy on-the-record quote that Politico got from Republicans in the wake of McCarthy's ouster.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), for one, said that voters are looking at the GOP right now and thinking, "Are you guys nuts?"
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), meanwhile, said that the anti-McCarthy faction of the House GOP seemed to be trying to "burn the building down" with no plan to "put it back together."
Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) told Politico that the fight over McCarthy's ouster is "detrimental to everything" and said that any attempt to move an agenda through Congress had now completely stopped.
