“The indictment of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Friday not only sidelined an outspoken moderate lawmaker and put a potentially flippable seat on the 2024 map, it picked at a scab that’s festered inside the House GOP for months,” Politico reports.
“Faced with the endless drumbeat of embarrassments from Rep.
George Santos (R-NY), 105 Republicans joined with Democrats in December to expel him from Congress. Kicking him out before he’d been convicted of any crime broke with House precedent and was seen by many in the GOP as a self-inflicted wound, cutting their already thin majority even thinner.”“Now, Republicans are planning to argue, turnabout is fair play.”
Interestingly, Donald Trump came to Cuellar’s defense last night.
