The House was briefly thrown into chaos before the vote when Republicans objected to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-San Francisco) use of the word “racist” to describe Trump’s words, which violates the chamber’s rules of decorum. The vote forced Republicans to choose between condoning the bigotry and facing Trump’s political wrath. “Those Tweets were NOT Racist,” Trump tweeted Tuesday in the lead-up to the vote. The former prisoner of war in Vietnam and maverick Republican proved less popular among Trump’s voters than many analysts realized when Trump attacked him in the last election. Republicans, on the other hand, represent more than 80% of the House districts with the highest proportion of native-born Americans.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 16, 2019 17:35 UTC