{"id":1734802,"date":"2022-11-11T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734802"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:18:00","slug":"freedom-caucus-praises-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-caucus-praises-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Caucus Praises DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffreedom-caucus-praises-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/90-58\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">R<\/span>ep. Chip Roy (R-TX) took shots at Republican leadership in Congress on Friday and urged the party to model itself after Florida Gov. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/trump-escalates-feud-average-governor-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;unapologetic&#8221; approach to governance. <\/p>\n<p>Roy, in an op-ed for the <i>Washington Examiner,<\/i> faulted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for the &#8220;unforced errors&#8221; he says led to a tepid showing in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">midterm elections<\/a>. While Republicans are projected to secure enough seats for a majority in the House, an expected &#8220;red wave&#8221; did not materialize on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/to-stop-inflation-republicans-must-stop-new-biden-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHIP ROY: TO STOP INFLATION, REPUBLICANS MUST STOP NEW BIDEN SPENDING<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to fight for something,&#8221; Roy wrote. &#8220;Doing so requires a willingness to take on real political risk to fight for the American people. It requires taking the kind of political risk Gov. Ron DeSantis has unapologetically taken in Florida \u2014 a key to why he crushed his Democratic competition.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, the governor of Florida and a possible <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 contender<\/a>, won reelection Tuesday in a landslide. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, congressional Republicans, have taken no such political risk thus far,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our leadership has not demonstrated the willingness to use all the tools at our disposal to check a radical White House and fight for the American people suffering from its policies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Roy called out <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McConnell<\/a> by name, blasting him for not putting forth a Republican agenda for the midterm elections, and called McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;Commitment to America&#8221; an &#8220;eleventh-hour tepid and weak&#8221; agenda that &#8220;few Americans knew about much less cared about and which said both everything and nothing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>His criticism comes after McCarthy announced <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/freedom-caucus-threatens-derail-mccarthy-speaker-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his bid<\/a> for speaker of the House on Wednesday. As of yet, no one has mounted a challenge to him, and he received former President Donald Trump&#8217;s endorsement Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Roy is an outspoken member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which notably derailed McCarthy&#8217;s 2015 bid. Some in the caucus are reportedly pushing to delay leadership elections, with members like Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olivia_Beavers\/status\/1590820245518049280\">saying<\/a> Thursday they were still deciding whether to back McCarthy&#8217;s bid.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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