Capital City Sunday: Protasiewicz on SCOWIS race, Repug Rep. Van Orden on border trip

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1. "Clear and unequivocal evidence"

.... is in no way McCarthy accurately descvribing a thoughtful examination. It's just performance art, once again. From NPR:

> [Critics say] House Republicans have spread disinformation through these border efforts, face a failed legislative path on related reforms and have used the trips as photo ops.

> Douglas Rivlin, director of communications for immigration advocacy group America's Voice, argues the GOP border visits serve largely as dog whistles to what he calls MAGA Republican extremism.

> "So instead of actually legislating, the speaker is doing yet another border photo op to send a message to his MAGA critics that he's opposed to immigration as much as they are and get himself on Fox News," said Rivlin, a former Democratic congressional staffer. "Nativism has become the heart of MAGA Republicanism and the speaker and the Republican Party are in their grips."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157263441/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-immigration