Republican Lawmaker Says Her Party's Extremism Will Make Them ‘Lose Huge’ In 2024

Republican Representative Nancy Mace, one of the more "moderate" members of her Party, said this past weekend that her party's extreme stance on issues like abortion are going to lead to a massive devastation of Republican lawmakers in the 2024 election. She's likely not wrong - polls show that Republicans are on the wrong side of that issue and plenty of others, and the GOP is showing no signs of slowing down. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republican representative Nancy Mace during an interview this past weekend said that she expects her party, the Republican Party to lose huge in 2024 because of their extreme positions on issues, specifically their extreme position on abortion. Here is what Nancy Mace had to say. I want us to find some middle ground as a Republican and conservative, constitutional conservative who's pro-life. I saw what happened after Roe v. Wade was overturned because I represent a very purple district, as purple as this dress. I, I guess she was wearing a purple dress. I don't know. I didn't see a video and I saw the sentiment change dramatically, and we just saw a fetal heartbeat Bill signed in the dead of night. Recently in Florida, in my home state of South Carolina, there was a very small group of state legislators later, uh, that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions and gave more rights to rapists than women who've been raped.

That is the wrong message heading into 24. We're going to lose huge if we continue down this path of extremities. Yeah, and what's great, Nancy, is that your party is way too stupid to know that you're headed down that path. Like you're gonna take a woman that was raped and say, Hey, listen, that rapist has rights too. You can't abort his child. He should have visitation. You should have to confront a RA rapist and raise his little rape baby. And if he doesn't pay child support, we'll slap him on the wrist. But hey, he's got rights too, right? Yeah. You're gonna get creamed and you deserve it. Like you, you can go out there. She said this on ABC News. You can go out there and whine to ABC News that, oh, my party is doing these horrible things. Yai admitted You're a pro-life conservative, uh, uh, lawmaker.

So you agree with these things. In principle, you, you just, you said it right? You said it, you admitted it like I, I'm pro-life too. Which means you want these things and you wanted them up until you saw how they backfired on Republicans, which means for you to now say we shouldn't do it, it doesn't mean that you've had a moral change of heart and believed that women should have control over their own bodies. What it means is that you only believed in it when you thought it was a political advantage for you. It's not about morals. It's not about what you think the Bible does or doesn't say. You are pro-life because you think it wins you elections. Now that you see, it doesn't, you're telling your party to back off If you need any more proof that the pro-life movement is nothing but a farce. This is it. And I don't think that was Nancy Mac's intention, but that's what she just admitted there. That's the takeaway from this segment,

Folks. It's not that Republicans are headed down a path of self-destruction. It's that these so-called pro-life Republicans, when they see how unpopular their pro-life stances are, they don't stand their ground. They don't say, well, this is the morally right thing to do, so I'm sticking with it. They say, oh, okay. Suddenly I don't think it's such a good idea. Maybe we shouldn't do it cuz I don't wanna lose an election. It's about self-preservation. That's why they're stripping women of their rights because they thought it was the politically good thing to do. Now that they realize it's not, they're starting to realize, you know what? Maybe I'm not as pro-life as I thought, but it's too late.