‘We’re not going to take it anymore’: Republicans start their convention with a show of force
Representative Carlos Gimenez of Florida is far from a firebrand. A member of the Republican Governance Group, he joined a handful of mainstream conservatives to block Jim Jordan’s bid to become speaker. In May, after Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed attempt to boot Speaker Mike Johnson, he said, “You’re not the Republican Party” and called her “an idiot.”