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A group of incoming Republican congresspeople intends to counter the radical agenda of the Democratic party, with the self-professed goal of becoming the Republican partys alternative to the Squad a group of progressive congresswomen of color including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.

Calling themselves the Freedom Force, the Republicans say they will combat the evil of socialism and Marxism.

We love our nation. This group will be talking against and giving a contrast to the hard left. We have the Freedom Force versus Squad; we have a group of people who believe in our country, believe in God, family, respect for women and authority, and another group who hates everything I just mentioned, the Utah congressman-elect Burgess Owens told the Fox News host Laura Ingraham, speaking as a representative of the Freedom Force.

Owens said the group would aim to protect small business owners and the middle class. Business ownership is the foundation of our freedom, he said on Fox & Friends Weekend. Its where our middle class comes from. He added that the middle class got its power from small businesses, while the left got its power from misery.

During the interview, Owens a former Super Bowl champion also railed against NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem and against the Green New Deal.

He pointed to the diversity within his new coalition. South Korea, Cuba, Iran, Greece, I grew up in Tallahassee, Florida Weve all dealt with the harshness, the evil of socialism and Marxism, and so we can talk from experience, he said.

As a final warning to Democrats, he added: Youre collateral damage if you run a business and you want to go to church and you want to put your kids in school; youre collateral damage thats the way the evil Marxists and socialists roll.

The coalition of Republican lawmakers includes New Yorks Nicole Malliotakis; Michelle Steel of California; Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma; Victoria Spartz of Indiana; and Carlos Gimnez, Maria Elvira Salazar and Byron Donalds of Florida.

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With the delayed transition to a Biden administration now underway, Americans have only modest expectations that the partisanship that has dominated Washington in recent years will ease in 2021. However, Democrats are much more optimistic than Republicans that relations between the two parties will improve.

Just 21% of Americans say relations between Republicans and Democrats will get better in the coming year. Far more (37%) expect relations to worsen, while 41% say they will stay about the same.

To understand Americans views about partisanship and the political parties after the presidential election, we surveyed 11,818 U.S. adults, including 10,399 registered voters who say they voted in the presidential election, between Nov. 12 to 17. Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Centers American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATPs methodology.

Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.

Following Joe Bidens victory and his post-election call for partisan unity, significantly more Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (35%) than Republicans and Republican leaners (7%) say relations between the two parties in Washington will improve.

To be sure, more Democrats say partisan relations will stay the same (44%) or get worse (20%) than predict they will improve. But Democrats are far more optimistic than Republicans, a majority of whom (54%) say relations will get worse in the coming year, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Nov. 12 to 17.

The share of Americans who expect relations between Republicans and Democrats in Washington to improve, while low, has more than doubled from 9% to 21% since shortly after the 2018 midterm election, when Democrats gained a majority in the House of Representatives. Since then, the share of Democrats who anticipate improved partisan relations has increased 22 percentage points, from 13% to 35%, while remaining virtually unchanged among Republicans at 6%.

Meanwhile, the public continues to have largely negative views about the state of partisan divisions in the country. A majority of Americans (69%) say that divisions between Republicans and Democrats today are increasing, while just 8% say they are decreasing and 23% say they are staying the same.

Majorities of both Republicans (74%) and Democrats (65%) say partisan divisions are increasing. Only about one-in-ten in both parties say they are decreasing, while 26% of Democrats and 20% of Republicans say they are staying about the same.

While Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say partisan divisions are increasing, Democrats are more likely to be very concerned about partisan divides in the country.

Sizable majorities in both parties (80% of Republicans, 83% of Democrats) say they are very or somewhat concerned about divisions between Republicans and Democrats. While 40% of Republicans are very concerned by this, a somewhat larger share of Democrats (48%) say the same.

Following the 2020 elections, members of both parties are generally optimistic about the future of their parties. More than eight-in-ten Democrats (83%) today say that they are either very or somewhat optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party, and nearly three-quarters of Republicans (74%) say the same about their party.

Partisans typically express optimism about the futures of their parties. But more Democrats are optimistic today, after Bidens win, than after Hillary Clintons loss in 2016 (83% now, 61% in November 2016). Republicans are nearly as optimistic about the GOP as they were in 2016 (74% now, 79% then).

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Democrats more optimistic that partisanship will improve in 2021 - Pew Research Center

"The fact that a pandemic may or may not be occurring changes nothing about the meaning or intent of state's constitution and the preservation of our inalienable rights," says Karey Hanks, who is running unopposed for a state House seat, in the video.

McGeachin, who has repeatedly clashed with Republican Gov. Brad Little over what she believes to be his onerous response to the pandemic, is featured in the video holding a Bible -- and then placing a gun on said Bible -- as she reads from the state's Constitution.

Despite those numbers, McGeachin immediately criticized Little's move.

McGeachin has clashed with Little repeatedly since the start of the pandemic.

Earlier this year, the Idaho Statesman's Cynthia Sewell reported that the two top Republican elected officials hadn't spoken to each other in weeks, and that McGeachin had personally defied Little's executive orders to control the spread of the coronavirus in the Gem State.

"She left the Legislature's 2020 session early the lieutenant governor presides over the Senate to attend to her family business, a restaurant and pub in Idaho Falls. She has attended or supported rallies opposing Little's stay-home order and has been urging him to let businesses re-open. She defied his state order earlier this month to attend an event at a North Idaho brewery that re-opened despite Little's order."

McGeachin's high-profile critique of Little is explained by, you guessed it, politics! The governor and lieutenant governor in Idaho are not elected as a ticket, meaning that McGeachin holds no real loyalty to Little despite the fact that they are both Republicans.

While he spent a decade as lieutenant governor, she is a former state representative and small business owner. He represents the establishment within the GOP; she stands for the Trump wing.

The tension could well come to a head in 2022, when Little will be up for a second term and McGeachin will have the right of refusal when it comes to challenging him.

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Republican infighting in Idaho over the coronavirus has reached a new low - CNN

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez'Drink water and don't be racist': Ocasio-Cortez gives Republicans upset over Vanity Fair outfit 'pointers' on how to look better OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Trump strips protections for Tongass forest, opening it to logging | Interior 'propaganda' video and tweets may violate ethics laws, experts say | Democrats see Green New Deal yielding gains despite GOP attacks Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn't plan on 'staying in the House forever' MORE (D-N.Y.) is firing back at conservatives online who criticized her this week for wearing designer clothing in a photoshoot for the December issue of Vanity Fair.

In the latest issue, for which the New York congresswoman isa cover star, Ocasio-Cortez dons designer clothing for the cover, as is custom, and in additional photos taken for the issue.

Though Ocasio-Cortez does not get to keep the clothes, she generated backlash online for the photoshoot from conservativeswho called her outover the expensive clothing and accused her of being hypocritical given her progressive platform.

I wonder what brand of socialism allows you to get a $14,000 suit for Vogue photoshoots. See you soon, Alexandria. Looking forward to dismantling your socialist agenda in my finest Macys clothes like normal working people. https://t.co/KT2olZHqbq

How many of our voters owns a $14k outfit?@AOC has fallen into the #Swamp #hypocrisy

https://t.co/ukEbHv5bcn

What a scam. And how can she suddenly afford $14,000 outfits. https://t.co/qXTdGGvJ8v

However, Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against the criticism not long after on Twitter on Thursday, writing: Republicans are Very Mad (again) about my appearance. This time theyre mad that I look good in borrowed clothes (again).

Listen, if Republicans want pointers on looking your best, Im happy to share. Tip #1: Drink water and dont be racist, she continued.

Republicans are Very Mad (again) about my appearance. This time theyre mad that I look good in borrowed clothes (again).

Listen, if Republicans want pointers on looking your best, Im happy to share.

Tip #1: Drink water and dont be racist

She also retweeted a post from Fox Newss Laura IngrahamLaura Anne Ingraham'Drink water and don't be racist': Ocasio-Cortez gives Republicans upset over Vanity Fair outfit 'pointers' on how to look better Trump calls Fox 'disappointing' for airing Obama speech Fox's Ingraham: 'Biden-COVID ticket' using 'virus panic button' to 'scare old people into voting' MORE that linked to a Fox News article with the head: AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $14,000 to curse Trump out.

100 percent worth it, would do it again, she wrote in a series of tweets. (& I dont know if youve been in a photoshoot Laura, but you dont keep the clothes.)

The whole 'she wore clothes in a magazine, lets pretend theyre hers' gimmick is the classic Republican strategy of 'lets willfully act stupid, and if the public doesnt take our performative stupidity seriously then well claim bias.' GOP, get yourselves together. Its sad, she said.

(& I dont know if youve been in a photoshoot Laura, but you dont keep the clothes.)

The whole she wore clothes in a magazine, lets pretend theyre hers gimmick is the classic Republican strategy of lets willfully act stupid, and if the public doesnt take our performative stupidity seriously then well claim bias.

GOP, get yourselves together. Its sad.

This is not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has fielded heat fromconservativesfor her wardrobe choices.

She also knockedtheright-leaningNew York Post earlier this year after it published a story about a designer dress she wore during an appearanceThe View, saying then that the outletwas just mad that you can look good fighting for working families.

She also shot back at a journalist of the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner in 2018 after he said clothingshe wore on Capitol Hill didn't looklike that of a person who "struggles."

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As this is the last column of mine that will appear before election day, Id like to tell you a tale about the cattle driver political party of the mid-19thCentury, known as the Whiggamors (Ed: umwell see where this goes)

In response to the presidency of Andrew Jackson a man of questionable ethics and beliefs even in his own time an opposition party formed after Jackson was elected president in 1828. Jackson was a populist, in that he appealed to the regular people who were put off by what Jacksonians thought of as elites and stuck up educated folks. Jacksons xenophobia and other less than admirable personality traits were so off-putting that Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and others formed a new opposition political party to battle, well, Jackson and his ideas. Taking their name from the term Whiggamors, which meant cattle drivers, the gents who founded the party called themselves Whigs. The Whigs favored a national bank, protective tariffs, modernization, and a meritocracy. They were worried about tyranny in the presidency and found support among entrepreneurs, the professional class, bankers, reformers, and what we now call the middle class.

The Whigs got several folks elected to the White House, but ultimately the party fell apart and the members were largely subsumed by the emerging Republican party, which at the time was the liberal party on the political scene.

I bring up the Whigs as a gentle reminder to my GOP friends that political parties can rise and most definitely can fall when they grow out of touch with the American people. And while I certainly have my differences with the Colorado Republican Party, I am mostly talking about the national GOP, headed by Donald Trump, who appears to be embracing the destiny of the Whigs for his recently adopted party.

Todays Republican Party has cast off any meaningful ideology and has become a party based on expediency and seems dedicated to only one principle keeping power at all costs. Hypocrisy does not trouble Trump nor his congressional enablers such as Mitch McConnell and our own Cory Gardner. For Example, the Repubs dreamed up a fake rule to keep Obama from filling a vacant seat on the Supreme Court fully 237 days before the next election, yet showed breathtaking hypocrisy by rushing a (relatively) young and inexperienced but hard-line conservative onto the Supreme Court within just a couple of weeks before another election. As a military guy with a strong sense that honor is important, I do not understand how they sleep at night, but I digress

But the most recent offensive and evil actions of the national GOP have been around the issue of voter suppression. Let me state this as clearly as I can: study after study hasproventhat voter fraud is not I say againnot a significant problem in American politics. Yet the GOP claims that to protect the vote they need to take a series of actions that (by what they would claim is an amazing coincidence) disproportionately impact groups that tend to vote more Democratic. In recent days we have seen the Texas governor a loyal Trumper mandate that no county in Texas can have more than one ballot drop off box. Now, in many rural counties with tiny populations, such a restriction does not matter too much. But such is not the case in big counties. If I told you that, say, the entire state of Rhode Island had a single ballot drop off box for the whole state, would you find that troubling? Well, the Houston area of Texas has roughly four times the population of RI yet has only one drop off box. Why? To fight voter fraud that doesnt really exist? No, it is a policy designed to reduce Democratic turnout.

How about Iowa? My grandparents had a farm there where I often spent my summers. I love Iowa. Yet we find that the GOP there has gone against the CDC recommendations ofmorepolling places (to increase social distancing and make voting safer), and has actuallyreducedthe number of places to vote especially in urban areas where Dems are more likely to be.

You do not have to go to conspiracy theories about Trump to find proof of his corruption. Recall please that he already settled a suit for having a fake university (a $25M fine) and his personal foundation paid another $2M for cheating get this achildrens charity. Yet the modern GOP still rallies around him, blissfully untroubled.

And now, in the waning days of the campaign, one party is trying to make it easier for people to exercise their most sacred duty as a citizen casting a vote and one party is trying to make it harder.

I would urge the national GOP leaders to recall the fate of the Whigs. Their party collapsed and their legacy was squandered. History often repeats itself. The choices being made by the GOP today suggest a lack of historical awareness.

Republicans, to borrow a phrase, history has its eyes on you.

Hal Bidlack is a retired professor of political science and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who taught more than 17 years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

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