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David Schweikert plans to run for governor so he is making political calculations…

David Schweikert blames ‘populist’ AZ Freedom Caucus for his quitting the House Freedom Caucus

U.S. Rep. David Schweikert was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus when it formed in 2015 to undercut then-Speaker John Boehner and pull the broader Republican conference further to the right.

But now that the group has more power than it’s ever had — as evidenced by the concessions its members wrung out of current Speaker Kevin McCarthy last month — Schweikert has quit the group, ostensibly because he was sick of being confused with the members of a similarly named far-right group of Arizona state legislators.

Schweikert told Punchbowl News that he left the House Freedom Caucus because he doesn’t want to be associated with the Arizona Freedom Caucus, which was formed last year, because it is “much more populist” and not truly conservative…

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