Former Rep. Barbara Comstock said on Twitter yesterday that it “sounds like a good idea” if Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned his seat to join the defense team at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
“If @RepMattGaetz is his attorney it could mean more Republican votes for conviction,” she tweeted:
Sounds like a good idea for Gaetz to resign and represent Trump. If @RepMattGaetz is his attorney it could mean more Republican votes for conviction. https://t.co/XwIHovquBo
— Barbara Comstock (@BarbaraComstock) February 3, 2021
And earlier in the day she said that politicians like Gaetz are “killing” the Republican party:
“She (Greene) needs to be cut out and the other people who promoted her like @Jim_Jordan , @MarkMeadows , @RepMattGaetz – they’re killing our party,” Former GOP Rep @BarbaraComstock to us this am.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 3, 2021
She also retweeted this insult after the failed resolution last night to boot Liz Cheney as conference chair (It’s funny how they call out Trump for insults but then copy that same behavior):
Mascara was running https://t.co/eVx1lmdzMY
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) February 4, 2021
Gaetz fired back, reminding everyone that she’s a “former” congresswoman and he’d taker her comments more seriously “if she wasn’t so proficient at losing elections”:
I would take *former* Rep. Comstock’s comments more seriously if she wasn’t so proficient at losing elections with millions upon millions of special interest PAC dollars behind her. https://t.co/HuQfhSGchs
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 3, 2021
He does have a point on this:
Know what is a “cancer” in DC?
Sellouts like @BarbaraComstock who get elected to Congress & (upon departing) advertise that if you pay them enough they will milk their relationships to put special interests above interests of Americans who can’t hire Beltway influence peddlers. pic.twitter.com/95bRZBQCUz
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 3, 2021
“Go back to K street and leave the governing to those of us who win elections”:
Your voters retired you from Congress.
Then you cashed in as an influence peddler for hire.
Go back to K street and leave the governing to those of us who win elections. https://t.co/tE7Xtu0NEh
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 3, 2021
Although the GOP is really going to need to find a way to win again in places like Comstock’s old district. She got killed in the anti-GOP wave in 2018:
In the final month, several concerned Dem (and delusional GOP) consultants peddled garbage rumor that #VA10 was "more like a 50/50" race.
Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) ended up losing by 12.4%, tied for the worst showing for a GOP incumbent. The race had been over for a long time.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 12, 2018
Loudoun County, VA, 2016:
Clinton (D) 100,795
Trump (R) 69,949Loudoun County, VA, 2018:
Wexton (D) 100,515
Comstock (R) 67,545— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 12, 2018
Overall, Comstock went from winning 210K to 187K in 2016 to losing 206K to 160K two years later. Incredible nosedive.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 12, 2018
The district is still safely blue with Rep. Wexton winning re-election in 2020 56.5-43.4 over GOP challenger Aliscia Andrews.
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