Florida Republican on Democrats' strategy: 'That's the choice they have to make...persecution or policy'
His job is going to be to fight back when they're impeaching and they're interrogating and they are being vindictive, but also again to communicate why their policies will not make people's lives better.
Key points
- Jim Jordan, and start fighting, suggesting that Democrats will likely pursue political persecution as the main focus in the next Congress.
- In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Digital, Fine—who expanded his own victory margin to 19 points even as Republicans lost control of the chamber—argued that voters punished the GOP not for its policies, but because they didn't see lawmakers willing to go to the mat for them.
- So, as a fighter and a communicator, I think he's very well positioned to lead us for the next two years." Fine downplays policy as the primary driver of the disastrous 2026 blue tsunami: "I don't know that we need to change our policies.
FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN DIAGNOSES GOP'S BLUE TSUNAMI LOSSES: 'WE FAILED TO MAKE THEM THINK WE CARED ABOUT THEM' "Jim Jordan's not going to be able to pass anything.
So, for example, if Democrats would agree to voter ID, which is a huge thing the American people want, they might be able to extract a concession from us.
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- That's a very different job than what Mike Johnson had to do the last two years." Gridlock may be the persistent feature of the next Congress, but Fine does not completely discard the potential for compromise: "Well, first off, compromise isn't inevitable.
- That's going to be our greatest strength, is to point out why the Democratic policies won't actually improve anyone's lives, and to point out the policies that we would propose that will.
- Randy Fine has a blunt prescription for a House Republican conference staring down a steep Democratic majority in January: stop worrying about compromise, hand the minority gavel to Rep.
- We'll end up like Canada where there are death panels or the UK where you can wait a year or two to get to a doctor.' That's what we're going to have to do: fight back and communicate.
- I believe that we lost the election because voters thought we didn't care about their problems, because they didn't see us fighting to solve them.
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