The 60-plus members of the Main Street conference don’t fit into a nice, easily defined ideological box. All but two of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Pres. Trump came from their ranks. But, more than one-third of Main Street members voted against certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral college votes. And, almost every one of the 13 GOP votes in support of the infrastructure bill came from Main Streeters.
Moreover, says Chamberlain, Main Street members “aren’t going to stab McCarthy in the back.” And while some conservatives are urging a GOP-controlled House to quickly bring up impeachment proceedings against President Biden, Chamberlain says she “can’t imagine they [Main Street members] are going to vote to impeach Biden,” especially at a time when “we have inflation out of control, we have a war raging. Crime is out of control. ”
Upcoming primaries this spring and summer will help determine whether Republicans will have more “govern-ers” or more “bomb-throwers” in the next Congress.
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