Nearly two dozen representatives of Ohio鈥檚 Tea Party have written a letter to President Donald Trump, chiding Trump for directed at the House Freedom Caucus after the GOP healthcare bill collapsed last week.
The letter calls on President Trump 鈥渢o stand with our conservative heroes,鈥� as personified by Ohio Congressman and the other House Republicans who make up the Freedom Caucus. The president鈥檚 tweet indicated he would work to defeat caucus members in the 2018 midterms.
Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party says he objects to the us-vs.-them tone of the tweet.
The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
鈥淲e鈥檙e not them. We鈥檙e us," Zawistowski says. "If you think the Freedom Caucus is them, well then, Mr. President, you don鈥檛 have any support because the people who elected the Freedom Caucus elected you.鈥�
Zawistowski says caucus members were close to getting what he calls a true free-market alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and he believes a compromise on a new bill is imminent.
