A U.S. President Tried to 'Purge' Members of Congress From His Own Party. Here's Why It Failed

When President Donald Trump met with House Republicans earlier this week in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill ahead of Friday's vote on the American Health Care Act, the GOP's healthcare overhaul, the meeting was apparently not exactly friendly.
“If you don’t pass the bill there could be political costs," he told the members of his party, according to Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., who was paraphrasing Trump's warning to lawmakers. Failure to pass the bill would mean that "people could lose their seats," he is reported to have said.
He is also reported to have said that those who do not support the bill could be "ripe for a primary," and said that he was going to "come after" one notably recalcitrant representative.
That remark has been compared to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision in 1938 to personally back the primary opponents of incumbent Southern Democratic Senators who didn't sufficiently support his New Deal policies.

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