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The Home Freedom Caucus elected a brand new chairman on Monday evening, choosing Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., because the hardline conservative group’s chief for 2024.
Good was one in every of eight Home Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in early October.
“No remark tonight,” Good advised reporters whereas leaving a Freedom Caucus assembly simply minutes earlier than 10 p.m.
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Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., was elected to be the brand new Freedom Caucus chairman for 2024 (Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures)
He was equally coy earlier within the night after a closed-door Home GOP convention assembly. Requested by Fox Information Digital of his coverage objectives if he turned chairman, he mentioned, “I am going to wait to speak about it after tonight.”
Good is a conservative who was elected in 2020 to Virginia’s red-leaning fifth Congressional District, which is generally rural however consists of a part of Charlottesville.
He’s anticipated to have vital sway over Home GOP coverage as Freedom Caucus chair, with the group wielding outsized affect to this point in Republicans’ razor-thin Home majority.
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The group’s present chairman is Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a detailed ally of former President Trump’s. Leaving the Monday evening assembly, Perry was requested by Fox Information Digital whether or not he had any recommendation for Good.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., is the group’s present chairman
“Be true and be daring,” Perry mentioned, including that he hoped Good would “lead higher” as his successor.
Good’s relationship with management has, to this point, been extra fraught than Perry’s, as he was one in every of 20 Home Republicans who compelled McCarthy to undergo 15 rounds of voting earlier than successful the speaker’s gavel in January, months earlier than lastly voting to oust him.
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Perry mentioned of that distinction, “Previous chairs, Jordan, Meadows, Biggs, type of [grew] into the place. It is not nearly you and your individual wishes. You are representing the group, the model, and so you need to be open to possibly issues that you just would not be in any other case.”
Good was one in every of eight Home Republicans who voted to oust ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Publish through Getty Pictures)
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He wouldn’t say whether or not the friction with McCarthy could be a legal responsibility for the group’s negotiating energy going ahead.
“We’re all on this collectively. So we, you understand, recover from our private variations and disagreements and concentrate on the nation,” he mentioned as an alternative.
Elizabeth Elkind is a reporter for Fox Information Digital targeted on Congress in addition to the intersection of Synthetic Intelligence and politics. Earlier digital bylines seen at Each day Mail and CBS Information.
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Home Freedom Caucus elects Republican who voted to oust McCarthy as new chief
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