{"id":1799214,"date":"2023-01-08T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799214"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:19:28","slug":"dan-crenshaw-walks-back-terrorist-comment-against-gop-house-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dan-crenshaw-walks-back-terrorist-comment-against-gop-house-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Crenshaw Walks Back \u2018Terrorist\u2019 Comment Against GOP House Members"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fdan-crenshaw-walks-back-terrorist-comment-against-gop-house-members%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=1799214&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-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/texas\">Texas<\/a> Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw We apologize Sunday for referring some of his GOP colleagues to as \u201cterrorists\u201d During negotiations that led to the election Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (R-CA) House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw shared the apology during an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d With Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, things get heated and things get said. Obviously, to people who took offense by that, it\u2019s pretty obvious that it\u2019s meant as a turn of phrase,\u201d Crenshaw said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaketapper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanCrenshaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepDanCrenshaw<\/a> The GOP infighting that caused the stalled election House speaker vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aORnzxukRG\">https:\/\/t.co\/aORnzxukRG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 State You can find the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1612129629816475648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got pretty thick skin. I\u2019m called awful, vile things by the very same wing of the party that I was fighting at that moment. So I was a little taken aback by the sensitivity of it. But to the extent that I have colleagues that were offended by it, I sincerely apologize to them. I don\u2019t want them to think I actually believe they\u2019re terrorists. It\u2019s clearly a turn of phrase that you use in an intransigent negotiation,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, had referred the 20 GOP holdouts to McCarthy as \u201cterrorists.\u201d He later doubled down on his remarks but explained they weren\u2019t intended to be taken literally.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey need to be men and adults and say what they want, instead of playing these little games, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re asking. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve asked them. Some of them are my friends. Stop saying platitudes like, \u2018Washington is broken. We can&#8217;t do the status quo,\u2019\u201d Crenshaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dylanewells\/status\/1610701401168003072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a figure of speech. People need to lighten up and grow some f***ing thick skin,\u201d He said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I think about that. I am so sick of like these hurt feelings. I already got criticized earlier because I called them something else. You know what? You step into the octagon, be ready to get punched in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw He continued to criticize his colleagues&#8217; tactics and challenged them to join him in making McCarthy the winner. House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need to be men and adults and say what they want, instead of playing these little games, that\u2019s what we\u2019re asking. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve asked them. Some of them are my friends. Stop saying platitudes like, \u2018Washington is broken. We can\u2019t do the status quo,\u2019\u201d Crenshaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw The GOP holdouts during An <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2023\/01\/04\/crenshaw-unloads-on-gop-holdouts-acting-like-terrorists-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> On Fox News Radio Host Guy Benson On Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had no plan. They have some list of demands that mostly have been met,\u201d He said. \u201cThey basically closed all the doors and pulled the pins on the grenades and are staring at each other like, what the hell do we do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was unable to get the votes required by the GOP House Majority until early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire Previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-elected-next-speaker-of-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>McCarthy won with 216 more votes than the rest Rep. Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 (D-NY) 212 after six Republicans voted \u201cpresent,\u201d McCarthy was able to reach the final hurdle in order to secure the position. The win came after 15 votes over multiple days as House Members returned to WashingtonAfter the holiday break,, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>20 total Republicans refused to support McCarthy\u2019s nomination throughout the early rounds. In All but six votes will count as the final vote. House To end the week-long fight, members voted to elect McCarthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw apologized on Sunday for referring to some of his GOP colleagues as \u201cterrorists\u201d during negotiations that led to the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker. Crenshaw shared the apology during an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d with Jake Tapper. \u201cLook, things get heated and things &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1799217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5901,5242,6202,7020,6203,3653,4163,6054,6195],"class_list":["post-1799214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-comment","tag-crenshaw","tag-daily","tag-dan","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-terrorist","tag-walks","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}