Matt Gaetz Is Winning

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Finally, I caught up with him at the members-only elevator, my heart pounding.
70% : When she said yes, Trump sent over a bottle of champagne.
65% : I stretched out my hand.
61% : But the most striking moment is when he answers a call from President Trump, who praises him for some TV hit or other.
59% : Each year, the National Forensic League announced a new policy resolution -- strengthening relations with China, promoting renewable energy -- and debaters worked in pairs to build a case both for and against it.
59% : Trump asked Gaetz for policy advice, and suggested ways that Gaetz could highlight the MAGA agenda on television.
55% : "Few items in Gaetz's biography are more on the nose than the fact that his childhood vacation home -- which his family still owns -- was the pink-and-yellow-trimmed house along the Gulf of Mexico that was used to film the The Truman Show, the movie about a man whose entire life is a performance for public consumption.
52% : In 2015, while Donald Trump was descending the golden Trump Tower escalator, Gaetz was halfway through his third full term in the Florida House, pondering his next move.
51% : Gaetz claimed in his book that he once even took a call from Trump while "in the throes of passion.
49% : (It has always been difficult, though, to take Gaetz's yearning for reform seriously when his political idol is Trump, a man who not only refused to divest from his own business interests as president but who promised to "drain the swamp" before appointing a staggering number of lobbyists to positions in his government).
48% : Trump told a group of lawmakers at the White House Christmas party in 2019, according to Firebrand.
46% : In 2017, he urged Trump to endorse DeSantis for Florida governor.
45% : He's proposed abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, but he's not a climate-change denier, and has supported legislation that would encourage companies to reduce carbon emissions voluntarily.
41% : Left with the choice of Trump, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, or then-Ohio Governor John Kasich, Gaetz embraced the man he said was best suited to disrupt the stale workings of Washington, D.C.In the same statement announcing he was running for Congress, Gaetz declared that he was #allin for Trump.
36% : McCarthy had failed to do enough to curb government spending and oppose the Democrats, Gaetz told reporters.
32% : (Johnson once supported Trump but says he now backs Joe Biden.)
29% : The two traveled state to state, alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election and declaring Trump the rightful president of the United States.
27% : He had become a loud Trump defender -- introducing a resolution to force Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign and even joining an effort to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
27% : Trump was angry when Gaetz voted to limit the president's powers to take military action, but the two worked it out.
24% : Trump, despite his wealth and New York upbringing, "is the redneck father Matt never had," Johnson told me.
12% : Warming up the crowd for Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair last August, Gaetz declared that "only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C."Gaetz has all the features -- prominent brow, bouffant hair, thin-lipped smirk -- of an action-movie villain, and at times he's seemed to cultivate that impression.

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