Axios: “On a flight Tuesday from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne, Ind., two leaders in the House Republican conference discussed a memo that argues that their party’s future demands they ’embrace our new coalition’ because ‘President Trump’s gift didn’t come with a receipt.’ The document, titled ‘Cementing GOP as the Working Class Party,’ leaves no doubt that Republicans – at least in the House of Representatives – will be doubling down on Trump for the foreseeable future.”
“On the afternoon flight between fundraisers, home state Rep. Jim Banks, who leads the largest bloc of House conservatives, the Republican Study Committee, handed his memo to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Banks argues in the memo that ‘both parties are undergoing coalitional transformations’ and Republicans shouldn’t fight the trend of corporate donors pulling back from the GOP. ‘Our electoral success in the 2022 midterm election will be determined by our willingness to embrace our new coalition,’ the memo says. ‘House Republicans can broaden our electorate, increase voter turnout, and take back the House by enthusiastically rebranding and reorienting as the Party of the Working Class.’ ‘There is an embittered and loud minority in the GOP that finds our new coalition distasteful, but President Trump’s gift didn’t come with a receipt,’ he adds.”