{"id":1207240,"date":"2022-01-11T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207240"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:16","slug":"exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-chamber-of-commerce-left-republican-party-a-long-time-ago-not-welcome-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-chamber-of-commerce-left-republican-party-a-long-time-ago-not-welcome-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Kevin McCarthy: Chamber of Commerce \u2018Left\u2019 Republican Party \u2018A Long Time Ago,\u2019 Not Welcome Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-kevin-mccarthy-chamber-of-commerce-left-republican-party-a-long-time-ago-not-welcome-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no place in the modern Republican Party and that the big business lobby is not going to be welcome back if and when Republicans are back in power.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s comments came during the latest On The Hill long-form video special, taped in December at an Eastern Market establishment on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Chamber left the party a long time ago,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cIn the last election, the Chamber supported Democrats. The Chamber gave a higher score to Democrats who are voting for this policy because they signed some letter then voted the opposite of what the letter said than Kevin Brady who was chair of Ways and Means and brought us the tax cuts. I just assume they have as much influence in the future as they do now\u2014none. Our responsibility is to the American public. That is who\u2019s going to drive it. If special interests are the American public then they\u2019ll have a say, but it\u2019s the American public we\u2019re going to.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19438282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1317822589.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19438282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1317822589.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 13: House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) speaks during a hearing with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2021 in Washington DC. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai took questions from members about President Biden\u2019s 2021 trade policy agenda. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Kevin Brady (R-TX) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>McCarthy is correct that the Chamber backed several vulnerable Democrats in the 2020 congressional elections, endorsing them over Republicans and perhaps preserving the Democrat majority in the process. Had Republicans flipped just a handful more seats\u2014they flipped a net 15 from Democrats in 2020\u2014they would have the majority instead of the Democrats right now. The Chamber, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/01\/chamber-commerce-endorses-23-house-democrats-re-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed 23 House Democrats<\/a> in 2020, may have made the difference in helping keep the Democrats in the majority as some of the members the business group endorsed survived tight reelection races.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>If five or more of the Chamber-backed Democrats who survived in 2020, like Reps. Cindy Axne (D-IA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Elaine Luria (D-VA), Susie Lee (D-NV), Dean Phillips (D-MN), or Angie Craig (D-MN) among others, did not survive their reelection bids then the Republicans would be in the U.S. House majority right now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16355552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1176873972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16355552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1176873972.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 24: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (C) (D-VA) and Rep. Elaine Luria (R) (D-VA) are trailed by reporters after leaving a House Democratic caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol where formal impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump were announced by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi September 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Spanberger and Luria are two of seven freshman members of the House with national intelligence or military backgrounds who recently spoke out in an opinion piece calling for an investigation of Trump. (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria are trailed by reporters after leaving a House Democratic caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol September 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s comments on this come as more broadly the business community and Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/business-a-lobbying\/575671-rift-widens-between-business-groups-and-house-gop?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have grown apart<\/a>, especially in the wake of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. In the immediate aftermath of that event, many large corporations cut off Republicans who challenged the 2020 election results that day. McCarthy went on to generally agree that businesses getting overtly political is not good for their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I see that\u2019s happening in the corporate world is they\u2019re becoming woke,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cTheir philosophy should be running their business, not going day to day about what\u2019s happening in politics. They have a right to do what they want, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll be as productive if they lose sight of why the shareholders buy their stock which is to run a business and efficiency of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the full-length interview with Kevin McCarthy:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">Matthew Perdie \/ Breitbart News, Jack Knudsen \/ Breitbart News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no place in the modern Republican Party and that the big business lobby is not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}