Former Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) came out swinging in his challenge to GOP Rep. Doug Collins last week, saying Collins has the “values of Paul Ryan, John Boehner and the Washington establishment.”
Even in Tuesday’s crowded, 15-man primary race to fill Boehner’s vacant southwest Ohio seat, some candidates are accusing opponents of being another Boehner clone, even though the former Speaker consistently won reelection to his House seat by large margins.
Though he resigned from Congress back in October, the unpopular former Speaker’s name and likeness are still cropping up on the campaign trail in some of the fiercest congressional primary contests.
And given that outsiders like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are dominating the GOP presidential primary, it’s no surprise why some Republicans are trying to tie their primary opponents to a longtime Capitol Hill insider who came to embody the D.C. establishment.
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