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"This ain’t your father’s Republican Party,” Biden said during
remarks in Seattle, as he described the difficulty in getting
Republican support for his climate change and other goals in
Congress.
"All you got to do is look at what’s being played this morning,
about the tape that was released," Biden said, without going
into specifics.
The Democratic president was referring to an audiotape made
public this week that showed Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican
in the U.S. House of Representatives, saying that Republican
then-President Donald Trump should resign over the Jan. 6, 2021,
U.S. Capitol riot.
McCarthy publicly zigzagged on Trump's culpability for the Jan.
6 riot, saying the former president bore some responsibility for
the violence -- then visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago resort home
in Florida.
"All kidding aside, this is a MAGA party now,” Biden added.
“These guys are a different breed of cat."
Republicans who "know better are afraid to act because they know
they will be primaried," Biden said, referring to primaries, or
party nominating contests.
Republican officials who criticize Trump potentially risk
drawing his ire or that of his supporters, and losing their
positions in a primary to a challenger.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; writing by Heather Timmons; editing by
Jonathan Oatis)
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