Source: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/15/raul-labrador-profile-tea-party-congress-2018-218822

«The president is wildly popular in Freedom Caucus districts. This has been confounding to some conservative lawmakers: They watched the same voters who sent them to D.C. with a mandate for ideological purity and fiscal discipline—or so they believed—flood the polls to vote for a former Democrat from New York who barely paid lip service to the debt or the deficit.“

[Thomas] Massie is the one who says it best,” Labrador says of his colleague from Kentucky. “When he ran, he thought they were looking for a conservative and it was all about ideology. But now he realizes they were looking for the craziest SOB who will actually take on the establishment.”»