The first anniversary of the attack was marked as a "smear on Trump supporters." In the middle of the hearings last month, the Republican governor of Florida dismissed the idea that voter fraud was a problem.
When Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Donald Trump tried to wave through rioters carrying military-style weapons and march with them down Pennsylvania Avenue to join the insurrection, Ted Cruz didn't weigh in.
There was a lot of coverage for Cruz's battle with Elmo of "Sesame Street" over coronaviruses vaccines for children. According to a person familiar with Cruz's thinking, the Texas senator doesn't like the House hearings and doesn't watch them anymore.
The former Vice President, who was the subject of an entire committee hearing last month, has avoided almost all talk of January 6.
Republicans are tired of carrying water for Trump, he doesn't command the power he used to, and GOP voters aren't engaged by Trump's election lies
One of the former Trump aides said they were tired. They don't agree with everything that happened in the election, but they don't want to have to deal with it all the time.
The select committee investigating Trump's attempt to hold onto power has dominated the news for more than a month. Trump has been sending "truths" from his social media company to reporters in order to stem the flood of revelations.
Some items from the committee have been pushed back by a small group of House Republicans.
The glaring absence of Trump supporters at the hearings has led to the former president lambasting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for abandoning the committee.
The decision was a bad one. Trump told a right-wing radio host that it was a bad decision not to have representation on the committee.
Inflation, the rise of China as a global threat, and other hot-button issues have been hammered away at by most of the Republican Party apparatus in order to get their voters to vote for them.
At the same time, Trump's standing as the defacto front-runner for the nomination in 2024 has continued to slip, while other candidates are seeing their stock go up. According to a University of New Hampshire poll, the Florida governor is ahead of Trump in early voting. According to a Yahoo/YouGov poll at the end of June, Ron DeSantis was within 9 percentage points of ousting Trump as the party's nominee.
Trump has told Republican operatives who meet with him that he wants to run for president again this summer. According to one of his advisers, Trump had said he was going to announce on July 4, but Independence Day came and went without an announcement.
He can do the most selfish thing he can. One Republican strategist said that he needed to change the channel because it was bad for him.
Republicans have soured on supporting Trump because of those games.
The Republican strategist had two words for the man. The Alabama congressman helped Trump attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and was subpoenaed by the House committee as a result, yet Trump still withdrew his endorsement of the senator.
He has broken his word too many times. You look crazy if you defend him. He doesn't cut ties if you look crazy.
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