Republicans Marvel at Their Newfound Media Irrelevancy

Republicans are reveling in all the attention the questions about Biden have brought upon Democrats.

Mike Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at the Capitol. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

As Democrats spent the day torturing themselves over Joe Biden’s status as the Democratic nominee on Tuesday, House Republicans spent the day dealing with a much cooler issue: Refrigerators.

Republicans passed two pieces of legislation on Tuesday, largely along partisan lines: the Refrigerator Freedom Act and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards (SUDS) Act. And throughout the day, even if they were just passing two appliance-related messaging bills that have no chance of becoming law, Republicans were — for once — just happy to not be fielding the reporter questions that Democrats were facing.

It was, in a sense, a day of bizarro-world split screens.