Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) is on the opposite side of his fellow conservatives on everything from ousting Biden to the 2020 election. He's OK with that.
Rep. Ken Buck is a card-carrying member of the Trump-aligned House Freedom Caucus. But when a local Republican asked recently if he could guarantee that elections are run safely, he didn’t sound anything like one.
He hasn’t stopped pushing back on party orthodoxy, even as Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s paper-thin majority makes his loyalty ever more crucial for GOP leaders. But Buck keeps speaking out against some of their biggest decisions — and making the kind of headlines that McCarthy is desperate to avoid. Top: Rep. Ken Buck laughs with Tricia Smith, senior vice president of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, and her daughter. Bottom left and right: Members of the Tusk Club ask questions of Rep. Ken Buck at their monthly meeting.during January’s chaotic speakership election that he’d entertain other candidates if the vote dragged on. He ultimately stuck with McCarthy.He said the speaker has “done more with his talent than anybody I’ve ever seen.
Buck added that McCarthy can’t gain back his confidence on the matter because the speaker’s camp doesn’t “take it seriously,” lamenting that “their goal is to stay in power.” “He knew that I was leaning towards not certifying Pennsylvania, which is the way I ended up voting,” Lummis said. “And it was very clear, when we had our conversation at the airport, that he felt very strongly that the law and the Constitution was leading him to a very different conclusion.”
Garland joined Buck last month in his district for an event honoring law enforcement. The two have a good relationship. They first became aware of each other during Garland’s prosecution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — a case that got moved to Denver, where Buck then led the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office.
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