Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) said Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) defeat last week against a GOP challenger revealed a “massive disconnect” between politicians in Washington and Americans.
Republican voters, he said, don’t care about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. Cheney was perhaps the leading figure on the Democrat-dominated House Jan. 6 panel.
“These congressional seats do not belong to politicians in Washington,” Barr told NBC News on Sunday. “These seats belong to the American people. And there is a massive, massive disconnect between the priorities of politicians in Washington and the concerns of the American people.”
Barr said that Republicans are going to pick up seats in the House because they are “laser-focused on what the American people actually care about.”…