Republicans have a habit of attacking their own people in a manner that handicaps them against Democrats, said Louisiana Rep. John Fleming, who added that House Speaker Paul Ryan exemplified the problem when he picked up a Democratic narrative against Donald Trump.

“Remember that in 2013 the government shut down because the president refused to work with us on a few adjustments to Obamacare,” Fleming said in an interview published Wednesday. “The first people to criticize the House of Representatives, and Ted Cruz, were Republicans and the conservative-leaning media. Not Democrats.”