Consultant Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, referred to as out Donald Trump’s “ridiculous bullying ways” on social media on Monday after the previous president focused a fellow GOP lawmaker at present serving in Florida.
Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee within the 2024 presidential race, requested in a Reality Social submit on Sunday night time if any “nice MAGA [Make American Great Again] Republicans” had been trying to run towards Consultant Laurel Lee, a Florida Republican who represents the state’s fifteenth District. Lee beforehand served as Florida’s secretary of state underneath Governor Ron DeSantis and endorsed the governor’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign final spring. Nonetheless, she has since switched her help to Trump in gentle of DeSantis suspending his bid for president.
At present, the congresswoman’s reelection marketing campaign for 2024 is just not going through any GOP challengers. However the former president prompted any Republicans aligned together with his MAGA motion which will need to tackle Lee to “PLEASE STEP FORWARD,” which sparked pushback from a handful of conservatives who additionally backed DeSantis’ presidential marketing campaign towards Trump.
“That is unhelpful and unwarranted,” Massie wrote on X, previously Twitter, on Monday afternoon. “@RepLaurelLee is a conservative considerate member of the judiciary committee. She endorsed DeSantis for President however then endorsed Trump when DeSantis bought out of the race. Extra of my colleagues ought to name out these ridiculous bullying ways.”
That is unhelpful and unwarranted. @RepLaurelLee is a conservative considerate member of the judiciary committee. She endorsed DeSantis for President however then endorsed Trump when DeSantis bought out of the race. Extra of my colleagues ought to name out these ridiculous bullying ways. pic.twitter.com/xY13AfQv6M
— Thomas Massie for Congress (@MassieforKY) March 25, 2024
Consultant Chip Roy, a Texas Republican who additionally backed DeSantis’ 2024 marketing campaign, responded to Massie’s assertion roughly an hour after it was posted, merely writing, “Co-sponsor.”
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s marketing campaign and Lee’s workplace by way of e mail for remark.
A handful of outstanding Trump helps indicated their potential curiosity in operating towards Lee, together with Jackie Toledo, a former Florida state lawmaker who misplaced within the GOP congressional major to Lee in 2022.
“Nice MAGA Republican answering the decision and able to serve… #MAGA,” Toledo posted to X, together with a photograph of her carrying a cowboy hat that reads, “Trump 2020.”
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Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and twice-failed Republican congressional candidate in Florida, additionally reacted to Trump’s critique of Lee on X, claiming in a single submit that she had obtained “over 22 cellphone calls from Republican officers at this time telling me to run towards Laurel Lee.”
“As folks know, @RepLaurelLee’s district is not too distant from the place I ran for Congress, and I raised $3 million after I ran for Congress,” Loomer added. “President Trump likes me. That at all times helps, proper? What do all of you assume?
Former New York Consultant George Santos, an avid Trump supporter who was expelled from Congress in December, additionally shared his ideas concerning Lee’s marketing campaign, writing on X, “Love Trump and assume he is useless fallacious on the Laurel Lee state of affairs. My two cents for what it is value…”
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