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Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger on Sunday asked fellow GOP lawmakers and "MAGA tribe" members to tell their constituents the truth about the 2020 election and stop campaigning like "zombies" desperate to get re-elected.

Kinzinger, a frequent critic of former President Donald Trump's power over the GOP, told Meet the Press on Sunday that Republican lawmakers across the country are "scared to do anything" that might upset the fanatical Trump base. Kinzinger said the fickle whims of Trump and the party were put on full display recently when "MAGA" supporters turned on former Vice President Mike Pence following the release of a book that detailed Trump and Pence getting into a fight in the Oval Office.

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked Kinzinger to respond to the Oklahoma Republican Party becoming the latest state to censure members of their own party for "failing to delay the certification" of the 2020 presidential election.

"It's just like Donald Trump's method, right? The biggest enemy to MAGA world right now is not even me or Liz Cheney, it's Mike Pence. Mike Pence is one of the most faithful people to Donald Trump. But if you ever turn an ounce against Donald Trump, you're out of the tribe," Kinzinger said.

"So to all of my colleagues in politics, let me say this to you: You either have to be a zombie for the MAGA belief system, whatever that is today or tomorrowit varies every day based on Donald Trump's whimsor actually stand up and tell your constituents the truth. And that's what we have to do is tell people the truth. We all know what the truth is. You guys know what the truth is. The American people and your base deserve to hear it," Kinzinger continued.

Todd said January 7 was supposed to be the "turning point" when a majority of Republicans in Congress realized "Trumpism is a virus inside the Republican Party that needs to be eradicated." But instead, he said, Trump's stranglehold on the GOP appears to have gotten even tighter, as this week's CPAC event showed.

Todd asked Kinzinger to respond to a censure resolution in Osage County, Oklahoma, where local GOP officials drafted a resolution to censure Senators James Lankford and Jim Inhofe "for failure to delay the certification of fraudulent electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election."

"That's the moment we're in," Kinzinger replied. "Just this kind of chaotic people scared to do anything, people scared of their own shadow, absolutely desperate to get re-elected, and meanwhile the innocent people in our base that in many cases have been led to believe that the election was stolen, is not hearing anything from any of the people that they trust."

A new book from Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal details a scene that reportedly took place between Trump and Pence in the White House over an article about GOP lobbyist Corey Lewandowski. Bender writes:

"[Trump] crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president. 'So disloyal,' Mr. Trump said. Mr. Pence lost it...Mr. Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr. Trump. He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. 'We walked you through every detail of this. We did this for youas a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight."

Trump on Friday responded to the book's claims about the fight, saying, "The story written by third-rate reporter Michael Bender, that Mike Pence and I had a big fight over Corey Lewandowski, is totally false. No such fight ever happened, it is fiction as are so many others stories written in the vast number of books coming out about me."

Newsweek reached out to Kinzinger's and Pence's representatives for any additional remarks Sunday afternoon.

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According to a report on a new book from reporter Michael Bender titled, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election," former Vice President Mike Pence got into a heated exchange with Donald Trump when the then-president threw a crumpled up newspaper at him, theWall Street Journalreports.

The incident reportedly took place in early 2021 when Pence was set to preside over the certification of the 2020 election. Pence's political committee had just hired Trump's adviser Corey Lewandowski, prompting Trump to reportedly hold up an article about the news while complaining it made him look like "his team was abandoning him."

Trump reportedly then "crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president," saying, "So disloyal." That's when Pence "lost it," according to the book.

"Mr. Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr. Trump," Bender writes. "He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. 'We walked you through every detail of this,' Mr. Pence snarled. 'We did this for you as a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.'"

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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday will address the state of U.S.-China relations and make his first comments on the origins of the coronavirus since leaving office and his role as chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Representatives billed his afternoon speech at The Heritage Foundation in Washington as his third major address on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific, following a 2018 address on China at the Hudson Institute and a similar address at the Wilson Center a year later.

A trade war between the U.S. and China dominated the relationship under the Trump administration before a phase one deal was struck in January 2020.

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China, upended relations. Then-President Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his response early on but quickly soured on the leader and used derogatory names for the virus that pointed to its Chinese origins.

Mr. Pence, who led the COVID-19 team tracking cases and forging policy preventions, plans to address the state of U.S.-China relations under President Biden as Beijing attempts to defend its oppression of Mulsim Uyghurs in the West, cracks down in Hong Kong and saber-rattles in the South China Sea, threatening Taiwan.

He also will discuss the origins of the coronavirus as intelligence officials probe whether the pathogen escaped from a Wuhan lab that researched coronaviruses derived from bat caves in China.

Mr. Pence has given a number of speeches to GOP chapters in key primary states, including South Carolina and New Hampshire, as he plots his political future.

He served the former president loyally for four years but was turned into a MAGA-world target after he resisted Mr. Trumps calls to send 2020 electoral votes back to the states when Congress convened on Jan. 6.

Rioters breached the U.S. Capitol during the certification process, forcing agents to whisk Mr. Pence away as attackers targeted him with threats.

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Pence has since said he and Trump will never see eye to eye over what happened on Jan. 6 but that he would always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years.

In June, Pence was speaking at a Republican dinner in the early-voting state of New Hampshire and gave his most extensive comments to date on the events of Jan. 6.

As I said that day, Jan. 6 was a dark day in history of the United States Capitol. But thanks to the swift action of the Capitol Police and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled. The Capitol was secured, Pence said.

And that same day, we reconvened the Congress and did our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States, Pence continued. You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office. And I dont know if well ever see eye to eye on that day.

Pence is reportedly considering his own 2024 White House run.

Since leaving office in January, Pence has been doing work with the Heritage Foundation and Young Americas Foundation. His team said he plans more trips, including stops in Texas, California and Michigan.

Along with his visits to South Carolina and New Hampshire, Pence has been hitting the fundraising circuit.

Among other prominent Republicans, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said in April that she would stand down if Trump decided to run in 2024. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has undertaken an aggressive schedule, visiting states that will play a pivotal role in the 2024 primaries and signing a contract with Fox News Channel.

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Doug Diamond| Guest Columnist

So here are some of the reasons the Republicans dont want a Select Committee to investigate the January 6 assault on the Capitol. Democrats call it an Insurrection, Republicans refuse to use that term. The definition of this term is a violent uprising against an authority or Government.

So Trump supporters assaulted the Capitol, assaulted Capitol Police, with over 100 injured, plus police deaths, you could hear the crowd calling for Vice President Mike Pence and a noose hung up outside for him. They were searching for House Leader Nancy Pelosi and invaded her office.

They sought to invade Congress and prevent the Constitutional process of certifying the Electoral College results formally concluding the election of Biden as President. Republican Leader McCarthy pleaded with Trump to call off the attack, only to hear Trump side with the mob.

It wasnt until two hours after the Capitol was overrun did Trump put out a video calling for the rioters to go home inpeace.He praised the rioters as "very special people.The Republicans who deny all of this need to be held accountable, including former President Trump. The truth needs to be revealed for the American public.

Doug Diamond, retired inJacksonville

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