'Like herding quail': Bush strategist slams House GOPers he says will scatter in 2024
Former President George W. Bush's chief campaign strategist Wednesday compared House Republicans to a flock of birds he predicts aren't going to fly in formation in 2024.
"It's a caucus like herding quail," Matthew Dowd told MSNBC host Richard Lui. "And you can't herd quail because they're all over the place."
This comment came on the heels of a revelation from Lui that the Republican House has passed just 3.5 percent of the bills they introduced in 2023, and a question as to whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would ultimately be able to "knock some heads together."
Dowd said no.
"The problem that Johnson has, and you can question him as a leader and all that, as I have, the problem is his caucus," he explained. "They all have different viewpoints."
The viewpoints may differ, but Dowd believes the object of their gaze will likely be the same in 2024: former President Donald Trump.
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"[Johnson] has to not only deal with an unruly caucus, he has to deal with this sort of unstoppable, disruptive force of Donald Trump that he'll have to face throughout 2024," Dowd said. "I think he's in an untenable position."
Liu then asked Pollster and political analyst Cornell Belcher what Democrats and President Joe Biden should do to work with the difficult GOP caucus in the months to follow.
Belcher laughed.
"The problem that the Republicans have is the don't actually put forward anything they want to actually accomplish that has large support of the American people," he said, "that have no widespread popularity."
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