A former top spokesman for Rep. Jim Jordan said Republicans need a “wartime consigliere” to lead them in the House minority and defend President Donald Trump from the onslaughts Democrats are preparing to launch.
\n\nSpeaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Russell Dye, a Republican strategist at Watchtower Strategy who spent nearly a decade as communications director for Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee, said the party should hand its top post to the Ohio Republican (R-OH) over current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA).
\n\nDye said the next leader has to be built for the fights ahead against a Democrat majority that will spend the next two years on oversight.
\n\n“We need that wartime consigliere. We need a fighter,” Dye said.
\n\nHe said Democrats will open investigation after investigation into Trump, his family, and anyone who has worked with the president, and said no one in the conference is better equipped to counter them than Jordan.
\n\n“If you ask Democrats and Republicans in D.C. who the best congressional investigator is … it is Jim Jordan,” Dye told Boyle.
\n\nDye pointed to incoming Democrat committee leaders who have already signaled they will conduct aggressive oversight, including one who…
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