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CatWoman

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Sun Jan 31, 2021, 06:02 PM Jan 2021

GOP Rep. Kinzinger to start new PAC to challenge party's embrace of Trump

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump earlier this month, has launched a new leadership political action committee that is designed to become a financial engine to challenge the former president’s wing of the GOP caucus and stand up against a leadership team still aligned with him.

Kinzinger, a onetime star of the 2010 Tea Party class, said the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol served as a final breaking point for the direction of the Republican Party, providing a stark divide between those who want to continue a path toward autocracy and those who want to return to traditional conservative values.

In an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Kinzinger formally unveiled his Country 1st PAC and a 6-minute campaign-style video launching what he hopes will become a movement

“The reality is this: This is a time to choose … And my goal in launching Country1st.com is just to say, look, let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backward looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division,” Kinzinger said on the program. “And that’s not the party I ever signed up for. And I think most Republicans didn’t sign up for that.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/31/gop-rep-kinzinger-start-new-pac-challenge-partys-trump-supporters/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3-xDrAOkOKLtHRxHoWD3jeYZqwaZAshzw2bDPU1o4C8xPl0JHM29vzUa0

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GOP Rep. Kinzinger to start new PAC to challenge party's embrace of Trump (Original Post) CatWoman Jan 2021 OP
It's time to choose, Republican voters! LOLOLOLOLOL servermsh Jan 2021 #1

servermsh

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1. It's time to choose, Republican voters! LOLOLOLOLOL
Sun Jan 31, 2021, 06:06 PM
Jan 2021

Dear Republican voters, I'm going to be jealous when you get TWO parties to choose from and I only have one.

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