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CNN anchor Jake Tapper cut through packaged talking points spouted by U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) in a brutal Thursday interview.<\/p>\n

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Tapper began the discussion with a request for Flood\u2019s reaction to President Donald Trump\u2019s dismal poll numbers and the apparent affect his unpopularity was having on individual GOP races up and down the ballot.<\/p>\n

To this, Flood launched into the passage of the Housing Affordability law, which he claimed increased building and construction hiring in his state. Flood was slipping into claims that his Nebraskan steel mill \u201ccouldn’t be busier\u201d when Tapper cut him off with a fact check.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I mean, polls indicate that \u2026 voters overwhelmingly do not agree with your assessment of the economy. And I will note that that Housing Bill that you helped write to help people afford homes, President Trump didn’t sign it. It became law without his signature,\u201d Tapper said, momentarily throwing the lawmaker.<\/p>\n

Trump had instead taken the bill hostage in an effort to muscle Congress into passing his doomed legislative obsession, the SAVE America Act, which would not pass without several painful rules changes in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I look at what he’s doing in terms of how much he’s talking about construction projects and the war, and not talking about the issues that you’re talking about. No tax on tips, et cetera. And I think it’s almost as if he’s trying to lose the midterms for Republicans,\u201d Tapper added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell, listen, I can I can only control myself,\u201d said Flood, before ticking off a MAGA checklist of complains including accusations of democrats \u201cregistering their dog\u2019 to vote.<\/p>\n

From there, Tapper held Flood to task on the nation hitting a penultimate $40 trillion in debt this week under Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has been, um, the president for about 25 percent of this $40 trillion,\u201d Tapper pressed. \u201cRepublicans controlled the White House, the House, the Senate. The country is on track to hit the debt limit that Republicans raised last summer by 2027. Why isn’t your party more focused on what’s clearly going to be a catastrophe for our children’s futures and, frankly, for generations to come? I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how much of our federal budget goes to just pay down the interest of the debt.\u201d<\/p>\n

But despite those facts, Flood blamed Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, we’re the only party concerned about that,\u201d Flood insisted. \u201cJoe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats went wild during Covid. They went wild with the spending. \u2026 If we\u2019re gonna get a lecture from Democrats it should start with \u2018where are we going to cut.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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