Florida's Rep.Randy Fine has a blunt prescription for a House Republican conference staring down a steep Democratic majority in January: stop worrying about compromise, hand the minority gavel to Rep.
Jim Jordan, and start fighting, suggesting that Democrats will likely pursue political persecution as the main focus in the next Congress.In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Digital, Fine—who expanded his own victory margin to 19 points even as Republicans lost control of the chamber—argued that voters punished the GOP not for its policies, but because they didn't see lawmakers willing to go to the mat for them.‘HE BLAMED THE JEWS’: GOP CONGRESSMAN LEVELS EXPLOSIVE ACCUSATION AGAINST JD VANCE OVER ELECTION POSTMORTEMFor Fine, the message sent by Jordan's election is unambiguous:Representative Randy Fine, a Republican from Florida, outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec.18, 2025.
(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"Well, it says to me that we're ready to fight back.I mean, Jim Jordan has two unique qualifications for the job. "One, he's our best fighter.
He protected and fought for President Trump during the ridiculous impeachments of President Trump's first term.He's just somebody who knows how to go into the arena and fight back. "But the second thing is, he's an extraordinary communicator.
And over the next two years, we are in a very diminished minority.That's going to be our greatest strength, is to point out why the Democratic policies won't actually improve anyone's lives, and to point out the policies that we would propose that will.
So, as a fighter and a communicator, I think he's very well positioned to lead us for the next two years."Fine downplays policy as the primary driver of the disastrous 2026 blue tsunami:"I don't know that we need to change our policies.And I don't even know how much of our messaging we need to change.
What we need to do is we need to fight.I believe that we lost the election becau...