Jim Himes: ‘There’s Not a Lot of Backbone Being Shown in the House of Representatives’

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HIMES: "I mean, I — on my side of the Capitol, in the House, you’ve got an awful lot of Republican legislators facing Republican primaries, where even in places like the northeast there is a small group of Republican primary voters who are interested not in what the truth is here, but in supporting their guy. By the way, partly because of the good work of Sean Hannity, and others who have sort of set this up, not as, you know, 'Let’s let this investigation finish, so that we can discover the truth,' but, 'Our guy is under attack.' So anyway, where I work, in the House of Representatives, you have an awful lot of representatives, Republicans, who are facing primaries who if they were to do what Thom Tillis, who is not up for reelection in November did, would face very, very difficult political winds at home. I’m not excusing that, I’m just explaining why there’s not a lot of backbone being shown in the House of Representatives today."