GOP Rep. Gimenez: Massie Might as Well Be a Dem, He Didn’t Vote with Us

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) might as well be a Democrat because “a lot of times you saw Thomas Massie on the other side.”

Host Jake Tapper said, “Your Republican colleague, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, he’s going to find out in just a matter of minutes, really, whether he gets to keep his job. For months, the president has been railing against him, calling him an obstruction.  Is the sleazebag the worst Republican in history? Do you agree?”

Gimenez said, “Look, I’m not going to, you know, launch names. Thomas Massie was one of my colleague, but I will say this, every time that we voted, he was certainly not surprising that Thomas Massie didn’t vote with the conference. And so he was a contrarian to be a contrarian. At first I thought it was, it was all due to, well,