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Chris Stein in Washington

MYSTERIOUS: Republicans return to washington to sift through wreckage of midterms rout | Mind Blowing Facts

House speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference in Washington DC on Monday
Mike Johnson at a press conference in Washington DC on Monday. The Republican speaker of the House called the midterm elections ‘a moment of sober reflection for us as a party’. Photograph: Nathan Posner/Shutterstock

On their first day back in the Capitol after comprehensive defeats in last week’s midterm elections, Republicans were divided into two camps: those who saw the catastrophe coming, and those who did not.

“I told you exactly what was going to happen. Over and over and over, I told you,” said West Virginia senator Jim Justice. “I said really and truly, if you weren’t concerned and you were a Republican, you were living in a cave. That was my exact words.”

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