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Adam Kinzinger

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“We do, there was, in fact, there's a text chain that sort of still exists of all the people that voted to impeach. And this actually started with hey, initially I think we had like 20 people on the chain, and then the people that didn't vote to impeach, we kind of got rid of them. And, you know, and so we went through that way. You've got like misery and company a little bit.”
2023-10-02 · On with Kara Swisher · Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some we talked a lot obviously during the January 6th stuff. I will say Liz Cheney, there are so many people I could go through every member of that committee and say how they helped the committee or what they did well, what everybody's shortcoming was. Liz Cheney was dogged to get to the facts. And I think, and you could see this in her testimonies, her opening statements and stuff, she was just always in on it. So we would be in touch all the time. I mean, there'd be things that were coming out that she already knew about that we had discovered that we were, you know, I was then going to find out in this committee meeting. So yeah, we're still in touch a little bit now, but she's obviously been busy writing, and we have our own lives.”
2023-10-02 · On with Kara Swisher · Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. In that regard, I was a mainstream Republican And you know, when you get there, the thing is, you can either work as a team or you can work against a team. And so when we're there and I started in 2011 and kind of threw out kind of the early Boehner years, we were fighting against this kind of crazy tea party club. But it got worse, obviously, now. I mean, they're willing to go, as you're seeing a potential government shutdown and everything else. And so for me, it was like, well, let's all work together as a team. Let's try to push our agenda forward by taking 80% instead of pushing for 100. It got out of control Really, right around, I mean, it was getting out of control more every day, but 2016, 2017 is where it ex”
2023-10-02 · On with Kara Swisher · Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A renegade or a maverick is somebody that's just like, you know what, I'm not going to do it. I've had enough. I've hit a point where it's like, in my case, the consequences I've seen to this country have been too big.”
2023-10-02 · On with Kara Swisher · Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they're getting struck on right now Yeah, I mean, I think a renegade, it's like when I think of my, used to be my friend, John McCain. It's Maverick, right? Like just somebody that doesn't, you don't get, you can come out of that, I don't know, that silo that you get put in. And that happens whenever you join a political party. You always have this pressure to stay in a certain way and act a certain way.”
2023-10-02 · On with Kara Swisher · Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT