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House Democrat Delivers Her 'Honest' Assessment Of The GOP's New Leader And... Ouch
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New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver argued that the GOP hasn’t learned its “lesson” from the midterms.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Tuesday reacted to the GOP picking Trump zealot Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to serve as House minority leader after the party was pummeled in the midterms.
“First of all, I’m not shocked either — just disgraceful and, quite honestly, a creep when I think about Rep. Jim Jordan,” said McIver in an appearance on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight.”
“It just goes to show how much they respect voters, right? They literally had the worst-ever election season, and this is how they come back strong, with Jim Jordan as their leader in the next Congress. It’s just awful, and they haven’t learned their lesson.”
The remarks from McIver — who handily defeated her GOP opponent to win reelection last week — arrive over a year after President Donald Trump’s Justice Department charged her with assaulting a federal immigration officer following a skirmish with agents outside a New Jersey immigration detention facility while on a congressional oversight visit with fellow Democrats.
McIver has stressed that the charges are “purely political” in nature, arguing that the president is weaponizing the DOJ to go after his political foes.
The congresswoman — who gave birth to her second child last month — faces up to 17 years in federal prison if convicted.
She told MS NOW that, based on the “behavior” Republicans have shown her since taking office in 2024, she’s not “truly interested” in working with the party, especially Jordan.
“They have totally lost their way, and they’re more in line with satisfying Trump on this extremist behavior like [White House Chief of Staff] Stephen Miller, and I don’t think we should be breaking our backs to work with them,” she said.
“It’s either you want to do what you need to do for the American people based on our agenda or, you know, kick rocks.”
McIver, when asked about her ongoing case, emphasized that she was at the site to do her job and accused the administration of trying to “criminalize” such inspections, noting that she’s asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to hear the case and throw it out.