CPAC Now: America Uncanceled with Matt and Mercedes Schlapp

America UnCanceled: CPAC Released 52nd Congressional Ratings Scorecard


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CPAC released its 52nd Congressional Ratings Scorecard on Monday, and Thomas Bradbury, Director of Advocacy and Policy, joins Matt and Mercedes Schlapp on this episode of America Uncanceled to discuss the results of the ratings.

The primary finding of the ratings was the divide between establishment Republicans and conservatives in Congress. The divide comes through in the voting records of Republican Congressmen that the ratings analyze. The ratings looked at issues like gun control, the Marriage Equality Bill, and the budget proposed by Nancy Pelosi in a lame duck session and found a shocking number of Republicans, led largely by Mitch McConnell, Adam Kissinger, and Liz Chaney, who voted in favor.

“When you start looking at the ratings, there’s, sure, a really good group of strong conservatives getting in the 90s, but there’s really a lot that leave you wanting more. There’s a lot in the 50s and then, as Matt said, it seems like it used to be, even five years ago, that you’d have some Democrats in the 40s and the 50s, but the people in the 40s and 50s are within our own party,” Bradbury observed.

The disunity of the Republican Party is disheartening for conservative Americans as they watch the Democrats unite and vote in lockstep to advance their agenda. That’s not to say that the Democrat Party does not have its differences, but when necessary they all fall in line behind the issue at hand. Republicans have yet to master this strategy, but Americans can be optimistic thanks to the growing number of steadfast conservative leaders, like Jim Jordan, in Congress.

For more, visit Conservative.org or follow @CPAC on social media. You can also follow Matt Schlapp @MSchlapp or Mercedes Schlapp @MercedesSchlapp to keep up with current events.

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