“With a fractured Republican party readying to take the reins in the House of Representatives, the White House is doing something it resisted early in office: taking on the more extreme members of the opposition party,” Politico reports.
“Over the past few months, President Joe Biden and top aides have become much more inclined to call out Republicans they consider radical by name, in hopes of tarring the GOP writ large and further dividing the party. It’s a departure from their first year in office, when it was an informal administration policy not to mention some of those very Republican members out of a belief that there was less of a need to fight with ‘bit players,’ as one Biden ally put it.”
