Why this GOP governor thinks his party got ‘worse than a butt whipping’ on Tuesday
“People are just kind of tired,” Stitt told POLITICO in an interview Friday morning, three days after the Republican Party suffered devastating election losses across the country and a few hours before Trump elevated Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff.
Key points
- You called last year’s election results a “ butt whipping ” for the party.
- In February, Trump lashed out at Stitt in a dispute over the annual NGA gathering at the White House, calling the Oklahoma governor a “ RINO ” and a “ wiseguy.” The two later appeared to patch things up, after a White House sit-down in March.
- When President [Joe] Biden, his party was raiding Mar-a-Lago, they were suing President Trump, and then Trump wins big.
Stitt urged Trump to stop directing the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents — tactics the governor described as “Third World country stuff” — and use his final two years in the White House to seriously pursue bipartisan immigration reform.
Additional details
- Stitt is now one of several prominent Republicans calling on the president and congressional leaders to take stock of the party’s midterm losses and change course heading into 2028.
- He’s always been good to me.” But the term-limited governor, who has said he intends to return to the private sector next year, did not shy away from calling out the president.
- If you think about why are gas prices so expensive, part of that you could blame on the war in Iran, but a lot of it is the lack of development of new gas processing pipelines.
- Greg] Abbott's loss was really the most shocking to me because he's such a good guy and has been a great governor for Texas, and I don't think anybody saw that coming.
- President Trump’s policies are amazing, and he does a really good job on a lot of fronts, but the civility and then just trying to be nice to people, I think would go a long way.” Stitt, who was until this summer chair of the National Governors Association, has been in Trump’s crosshairs before.
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