August Pfluger
Role at the time: Republican U.S. representative for Texas's 11th District and Republican Study Committee chair
Mixed or conditional
Responding to
Should Zohran Mamdani attend New York City’s 9/11 memorial?
"actually call out terror groups around the world"
Why we used this label
Opposition has an explicit condition, not an unconditional permanent exclusion.
Fox interviews Lawler and Pfluger about Mamdani's memorial attendance (opens in a new tab)Lawler's opening interview paragraph and Pfluger's conditional-attendance paragraph; accompanying video 6404877763112
Fox's original Dallas convention interviews. Quotations are verified against its written interview text, not an independently timecoded video transcript. Publication timestamp is metadata-verified; interview time is unspecified.