8 Reasons That G.O.P. Leaders Haven’t Deserted Trump
Republicans distrust many in the news media and see it as an institution that has decided to undermine an outsider president in return for website clicks and subscriptions.
They see news organizations working in concert with forces actively seeking to derail if not destroy the first Republican administration in eight years. Speaker Paul D. Ryan echoed that theme on Wednesday.
“It is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president,” he told reporters.
Trump Is Delivering
Like many of the voters in their states and districts, congressional Republicans are happy with the steps being taken by the Trump administration on immigration, crime, trade and deregulation. They see the president through an entirely different lens than that of his fierce critics.
“He’s an outsider in this process as I am, and I will tell you I give him high marks in the first four months in office,” Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia and a Trump ally, told Fox News on Tuesday. “This is a president that is beginning to reassert the national interests of America.”
Fear of a Special Counsel
Republicans remain skeptical that agreeing to a special counsel would in any way lower the temperature on the controversy raging around the White House.
Instead, they worry that moving in that direction might only inflame the situation