GOPer: Congressional Baseball Game Will Take Place As Scheduled

The baseball field that is the scene of a shooting in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, June 14, 2017, where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. was shot at a congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tierney Sneed contributed reporting.

Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) on Wednesday said the annual congressional baseball game will go on after a gunman opened fire at Republican lawmakers’ practice session earlier in the morning.

“The congressional baseball game is going on tomorrow night and it should,” McSally told reporters. “And that was a standing ovation when that was announced.”

Several reports identified the individual suspected of opening fire at Republican lawmakers’ baseball practice Wednesday morning as James T. Hodgkinson.

Police said five people were “transported medically” from the scene of the shooting, and President Donald Trump told reporters that the suspected gunman died of injuries he sustained during the shooting.

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  1. “The congressional baseball game is going on tomorrow night and it should,” McSally told reporters.

    That hole in the left side of their infield is going to make defending the bunt and run hell.
  2. This conflation of military and political “service” is interesting within this seemingly coordinated aspect of the GOP response…

  3. I wish I could play baseball in a major league stadium as part of my job.

  4. Frankly, Scarlett…

  5. One nation under gun, indivisible (except where healthcare is concerned)…

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