David Jolly

Former Florida Republican Rep. David Jolly has never had a great relationship with his party. Pointing out how beholden to big donors GOP officials are to 60 Minutes went down like a lead balloon filled with Republican integrity. Jolly was on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace on Monday to talk about the recent mass shootings, Donald Trump’s continued white supremacist rhetoric, and the GOP’s inaction on gun safety legislation. Asked about Trump’s rhetoric, Jolly agreed with Beto O’Rourke’s sentiments, but added that focusing solely on Donald Trump gave a pass to Republicans who have been complicit in their silence regarding such rhetoric, saying, “It is their silence that has normalized this escalation of this narrative across the country that Trump continues to reinforce.”

But he also pointed out that his former party’s “inaction on reasonable gun control measures” is probably the largest factor here. He told Wallace that he failed to “move the needle” within his party on the subject of gun safety, and that the GOP needs to face a reckoning, saying in no uncertain terms: