Tag Archives: Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy To Johnson: “Don’t Fear Motion To Vacate”

“The difficulty here is when you allow eight Republicans to join with all the Democrats to determine who can run the House when 96% percent decide one way — it creates some chaos. They’ve got to move through this, put the country first and be able to move on. I think they’re able to do this. “Speaker Johnson is doing …

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McCarthy: Biden’s SOTU Address Was Actually Meant As A Message To Democrats To Keep Him On Their Ticket

“He wasn’t speaking to the nation. What he was really doing was speaking to his party. This was more about a convention. I think he was worried about Democrats removing him for the nominee. “That’s why he came out, he tried to show every Democrat, ‘You know, you gotta be tougher, you gotta be stronger.’ And all he did was …

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Mace Rages After McCarthy Suggests She’s Crazy

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) railed against former Kevin McCarthy on Monday after the former House speaker mocked her inability to keep her D.C. office staffed, saying she needs “help to straighten out her life.” Mace, one of the eight House Republicans who helped oust McCarthy from the speakership, responded by posting a video on social media …

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McCarthy Suggests Matt Gaetz Will Wind Up In Jail

“I think people see now how far Matt Gaetz will go and the fear he has of what’s in the ethics complaint. He’s trying to protect himself, and that harms our caucus, that harms our majority. In the end, people will see why Gaetz would want to do that. And I think in the end, Gaetz would have a hard …

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McCarthy Plots Revenge On “Gaetz Eight” For Ousting

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy is not done trying to exact revenge on the fellow Republicans who ended his Hill career. A top McCarthy ally, Brian O. Walsh, is overseeing an attempt to recruit primary challengers to take on members of the infamous “Gaetz Eight” — the Capitol’s nickname for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and seven Republicans who supported his fire-McCarthy …

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GOP Gives Up On Ending Rule Used To Oust McCarthy

The Messenger reports: After Kevin McCarthy’s historic removal from the speakership in October, many of the California Republican’s allies vowed not to support a replacement speaker unless they agreed to defang the procedural tool used to oust him. They eventually rallied around Mike Johnson, a conservative Republican from Louisiana, without him committing to changing the motion to vacate. But two …

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CA Disqualifies McCarthy’s Would-Be House Successor

Bakersfield Now reports: The California Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday that state law prohibits Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) from running as a candidate for the 20th Congressional District of California because he had previously filed paperwork to run for reelection to the California State Assembly. According to a release, under state law, a candidate who has filed their declaration …

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McCarthy Takes Parting Shot At “Crazy” Matt Gaetz

The Messenger reports: McCarthy, in a nearly hour-long interview with a small group of reporters in his hideaway Capitol office on Thursday afternoon, took aim at Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the man who spearheaded the push to dispose him as speaker. “He’s just, you know, people study that type of crazy mind — maybe at the FBI,” McCarthy said of …

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McCarthy Delivers Farewell Speech To House [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) addressed fellow lawmakers on the House floor on his final day in Washington as a member of Congress on Thursday afternoon. “I had the privilege of being a leader for five years and I think about did I leave this place better than I received it?” McCarthy said. The former Speaker of the …

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McCarthy Eyes New Gig In AI, Would Work With Musk

Axios reports: Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is exploring a new career that includes connecting the next-frontier worlds of space and AI with Washington, he told Axios during a more than hour-long exit interview at the Capitol. McCarthy has been friends with Elon Musk for about a decade, and says he could imagine working with him or other future-tech moguls. …

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McCarthy: “America Doesn’t Want Trump’s Retribution”

CBS News has the transcript: Bob Costa: “You praise Trump’s policies. You say he’s a good guy. But many Americans, they look at his language, they listen to his speeches, and they hear an authoritarian. Some say even a fascist on the horizon in this country. What do you say to those people who have those real concerns?” Kevin McCarthy: …

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McCarthy Offers To Serve In Trump’s Cabinet [VIDEO]

USA Today reports: Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, said in an interview that he’d endorse former President Trump for president in 2024 and would serve in his cabinet if given the opportunity. McCarthy recently announced his resignation from Congress at the end of the year in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, saying he would serve America “in new ways” …

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McCarthy Used PAC Money On Lavish Resorts, Travel

The Los Angeles Times reports: The property is less well known as a gathering spot for federal elected officials and the campaign donors they wine and dine. But one politician was very familiar with the luxurious resort: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In 2 ½ years, the Bakersfield Republican’s election committees dropped nearly a quarter of a million dollars at …

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BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy To Resign By End Of Year

CNBC reports: Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he will resign from Congress at the end of the year. McCarthy, the California Republican who was ousted as speaker by a faction of his own party two months earlier, said he is leaving “to serve America in new ways.” “I know my work is only getting started,” McCarthy said in …

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Eric Swalwell: McCarthy Will Be Gone By “End Of Year”

The Messenger reports: Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is predicting Republicans will move to expel Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after George Santos got the boot from Congress. “With Santos gone, you’re hearing it here first: the next GOP member to leave Congress” will be Kevin McCarthy, Swalwell posted to X. “No way he stays. A guy who kidney punches his colleagues …

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Kevin McCarthy: Unserious Matt Gaetz “Belongs In Jail”

Politico reports: Florida Republicans should have clout in the House. They have the numbers, the pedigree and the recently earned distinction as an epicenter of Republican politics. Despite the numbers, they yield little sway. No members are in leadership. No Florida Republican holds a gavel. And while they often vote together on Florida issues, they’re otherwise a motley crew with …

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McCarthy Says He’s Undecided About Reelection Bid

Roll Call reports: “It’s a serious decision to make, and I have another week or so to decide because if I decide to run again, I have to know in my heart I’m giving 110-percent. I have to know that I want to do that,” McCarthy said in New York. “I also have to know if I’m going to walk …

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BOOK: McCarthy Said Trump Admitted That He Lost

CNN reports: Throughout “Oath and Honor,” Liz Cheney describes how she saw her Republican colleagues go from condemning Trump to falling back in line and supporting his claims of election fraud. Cheney reveals for the first time that McCarthy told her just two days after Election Day that he had talked to Trump and that Trump acknowledged he had lost. …

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McCarthy: Trump Should Pick Haley As Running Mate

The Hill reports: During the New York Times’s DealBook Summit, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked McCarthy who the “right person” would be for Trump to pick as his vice president among Haley, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and 2024 GOP presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.). “If I was a political person, and I was going to advise …

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McCarthy Gets “Pants On Fire” Rating For Claiming That The United States Never Kept Land Won In Any Wars

PolitiFact reports: Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., recently shared footage of himself dressed in formal attire, telling an audience that the United States has never sought land after winning wars. McCarthy said at the Oct. 28 event, “In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans …

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