“President Trump wants to step up efforts to protect Republican control of the House in hopes of avoiding an impeachment debate and congressional investigations if Democrats seize the chamber, according to GOP sources. ‘It is super important to the White House, and really the whole White House is very focused on it,’ said a source familiar with strategy talks about protecting the majority.”
“President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are beginning to plot their midterm push to hang on to power amid a shaky political environment, courting candidates in critical battleground House and Senate races while leaning hard on an issue that could animate the MAGA faithful: impeachment”
That the previous two paragraphs say more or less the exact same thing is exactly why they were pasted in here: The first is the lede to a story The Hill printed on April 30th, 2018 while the second was from a CNN story seven years, 0 months, and five days later. That the GOP’s strategy is the same from the better part of a decade ago and not only did it not work but Trump was impeached twice the next Congress is not mentioned in the CNN article that quotes NRCC chair Richard Hudson as boasting that “President Trump’s gonna be crucial for us in keeping the House.”
And Marjorie Taylor Greene saying “If the Republican campaign message in the midterms is to vote for House Republicans and vote for Republican candidates for Senate to stop the Democrats from impeaching Trump, the American people are not going to care because they’ve seen that show twice, and it didn’t matter. It won’t work,” and yeah she pretty much got it right on both ends.
The article gets deep into whether Georgia Gov Brian Kemp will challenge Dem Senator Jon Ossoff, but doesn’t offer much in the way of new hints as to which was he’s going to go. Greene also signaled an interest in the race, saying “I’ve got a lot of options open to me. There’s the governor’s race, there’s the Senate race, and then there’s my district, which I love.” When asked specifically about Kemp, Greene said simply “I’ve always been a strong supporter of our governor.”