House Republican Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is predicting the GOP will retake Congress in the midterm elections and he’ll be the next Speaker.
Just hours before polls open, McCarthy vowed Republicans will win “at least enough to win the majority.” and said “anywhere over 20 (seats) is a red wave.”
He refused to be drawn into the possibility that he could wind up in a messy battle with fellow Republicans for the speaker’s gavel, including potentially members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus and strident backers of former President Donald Trump.
“I’ll believe (I’ll) have the votes for speaker,” McCarthy said in the interview with CNN. “I think Trump will be very supportive.”
McCarthy said the first priority of a Republican Congress would be to strengthen security at the southern border.
“The first thing you’ll see is a bill to control the border first,” McCarthy said. “You’ve got to get control over the border. You’ve had almost 2 million people just this year alone coming across.”
He shrugged off questions about whether the GOP would also seek to enact immigration reform, an issue Republicans have dodged for years.
McCarthy downplayed Republican promises to cut aid to Ukraine, saying that the GOP wants more transparency about assistance to the Western ally battling a Russian invasion.
He sounded a cautious note about rushing to impeach President Biden as some radical MAGA lawmakers hope to do.
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“We will never use impeachment for political purposes,” McCarthy asserted.
He said the GOP would seek “accountability” from the Biden White House on a long list of Republican sore points, including the abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan and how the COVID-19 pandemic started, even though that took place when Trump was in power.
Polls predict Republicans will win the House, but vary widely on the margin. The party of a first-term president historically suffers broad losses in midterm elections.
McCarthy sought to dodge questions about exactly how many seats he hopes the GOP will win in Tuesday’s election.
A bigger-than-expected Republican House majority might smooth his path to becoming the next Speaker. If the party has only a narrow edge, it could give MAGA hardliners power to hand power to one of their own.
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He sounded a cautious note about rushing to impeach President Biden as some radical MAGA lawmakers hope to do.
“We will never use impeachment for political purposes,” McCarthy asserted.
This is not the right man for the job.
HE had that spot before, AND WASTED IT… Get us someone new.
If he’s trying to sound reassuring, it’s not working.
Believing a GOP win in the House seems compelling, until one realizes the scope and capacity for evil when the Liberal estabishment joins hands with the internationalist establishment and creates new ways to steal old elections. If two years pass with no firings, arrests and prosecutions of Obama/Biden/Hillary planted FBI type 5th columnists, the the GOP can kiss the 2024 elections goodbye. If McCarthy is not up to the task, he needs to step aside for one who is.
Acting to impeach and remove Biden and others is not a political solution, but one of removing actors of malfeasance and incompetence of a magnitude thal places our nation survival at risk, I hope he has invested in some knee capping protection braces of his own because January 6th was not about putting Conservtives in power, but ridding the nation of corruptiom and putting the real power back into the hands of tTHE PEOPLE, not any particular party. You all know the right thing to do,,,now let it legislatively be written, and let it proactively be done.
I agree. IF THE GOP gets in the majority, AND WASTES THAT opportunity, they can KISS our votes goodby in 2024.
He would be the biggest mistake as Speaker since Paul Ryan.
I’m writing this on the morning of what should be a Republican victory equal to or greater than the one that occurred in 1994.
The comparison had better stop there.
Gingrich’s “Contract with America” fell on its face, the party flushed its advantage down the porcelain throne, and Klintoon remade himself as a “moderate”, getting re-elected in ’96.
You listening GOP? McCarthy is straight out of the swamp. Fer cryin’ out loud, try to get off to a good start this time and pick someone else.
I wish i could give you more than 5 stars!
I look at him and listen to him and I get Flash backs to Harry Reid the Terrible.
OR twit Romney..