{"id":1252076,"date":"2022-01-28T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1252076"},"modified":"2022-01-28T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:52:47","slug":"gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-texas-will-play-major-role-in-winning-house-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-texas-will-play-major-role-in-winning-house-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy Says Texas Will Play Major Role in Winning House Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fgop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-texas-will-play-major-role-in-winning-house-majority%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=1252076&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/House-Minority-Leader-Kevin-McCarthy-RCA-may2021-press-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), during a campaign trip to Texas,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/28\/gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-texas-essential-in-republican-effort-to-seize-us-house\/\">told<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> that the Lone Star state would play a major role in the Republican party\u2019s effort to take control of the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas team will be a strong base for Republicans being elected\u2026&nbsp;I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just in Congress. It\u2019s up and down the ballot, including school boards,\u201d said&nbsp;McCarthy, coming off a hot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/12\/kevin-mccarthy-raises-record-72-million-for-house-gop-in-2021\/\">record-setting<\/a> fundraising year, who went to Texas in order to help Republican candidates and discuss his&nbsp;\u201cCommitment to America.\u201d<\/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>McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/03\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-details-gop-plan-to-retake-house-majority-31-democrats-sit-in-districts-donald-trump-won\/\">exclusively previewed<\/a> his&nbsp;\u201cCommitment to America\u201d with Breitbart News last month. He explained&nbsp;his&nbsp;\u201cCommitment to America\u201d and detailed what he plans to do in the majority, noting that majorities are earned, not given. McCarthy stated that, while there are droves of Democrats retiring, the Republicans only need to net five seats in order to take back the majority.<\/p>\n<p>As McCarthy hopes to regain a majority in the House, Texas may be the answer. Texas has the most prominent Republican delegation to Congress, and the incumbents will need to hold their seats, as well as gain more to help McCarthy accomplish his goal.<\/p>\n<p>After the redistricting maps were adopted, the Republicans had a clear 23 to 13 advantage over the Democrats. \u201cAnalysts expect a 24-14 GOP advantage after the 2022 elections,\u201d the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe intensity level on the Republican side and with independents is greater than anybody can see right now,\u201d McCarthy added, during his conversation with the&nbsp;<em>Dallas Morning News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, the&nbsp;University of Virginia\u2019s Center for Politics also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/27\/analysis-two-texas-democrat-congressional-districts-become-more-vulnerable\/\">moved<\/a> two&nbsp;Democrat-held congressional districts to more vulnerable positions.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019s Twenty-eighth Congressional District \u2014 currently represented by Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) \u2014 went&nbsp;from a \u201cLikely Democratic\u201d district to a \u201cLeans Democratic\u201d&nbsp;district.&nbsp;Additionally,&nbsp;Texas\u2019s Thirty-fourth Congressional District, where Rep.&nbsp;Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) has announced he will run, switching from the Fifteenth&nbsp;Congressional District, was moved&nbsp;from a \u201cSafe Democratic\u201d district to a&nbsp;\u201cLikely Democratic\u201d district.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Center for Politics analysis revealed that the district\u2019s rating changed due to President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201csubpar\u201d approval numbers with key minority groups like the Hispanics, who make up 90 percent of the district, and that the&nbsp;Hispanics have also \u201ceroded\u201d from the area.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), during a campaign trip to Texas,\u00a0told the\u00a0Dallas Morning News that the Lone Star state would play a major role in the Republican party\u2019s effort &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1252076","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\/1252076","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252076\/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=1252076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}