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07/01/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/01/2024 13:04

Trump’s Historic Conviction Fuels New Attacks in Key House Races [Bloomberg]

House Republicans: "A party slavishly devoted to one man, not their constituents"

Reporting from Bloomberg shows how, after former President Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts, House Republicans continue to bend the knee to protect him and undermine the rule of law.

The public can see House Republicans' blind loyalty and it will cost them in November as voters stand up to this extremism and elect a Democratic House majority that will fight for lower costs, reproductive rights, and our democracy.

  • To Democrats, the GOP reaction - including attacks on the judicial system and calls to strip funding from law enforcement - illustrate a party slavishly devoted to one man, not their constituents.

  • "They aren't independent thinkers. They dress up like him and follow him around," Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the chair of Democrats' national House campaign arm, said of vulnerable Republicans. "We need representatives who stand up for their communities."

  • The fight has played out in a wide range of competitive districts.

  • In a highly competitive southern California district, Democratic challenger George Whitesides blasted Rep. Mike Garcia. "We need a congressional representative who is focused on the needs of our district," he wrote in a statement, adding "Garcia is focused on defending Trump."

  • In Nebraska, Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas wrote on X that the incumbent Republican, Rep. Don Bacon, "has endorsed a criminally convicted felon for President and enabled this lawlessness."

  • In Florida, Miami-Dade school board member Lucia Báez-Geller reposted a video of Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar defending Trump outside the hush money trial.

  • "This is the Trump Party, and it's not focused on solving problems for the American people, and it's focused singularly on doing the bidding of Donald Trump," Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference. "They're going to have to defend this approach that they've taken over the next several months in advance of November before the American people."