{"id":1456031,"date":"2022-04-27T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456031"},"modified":"2022-04-27T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:15:31","slug":"can-kevin-mccarthy-overcome-his-very-bad-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-kevin-mccarthy-overcome-his-very-bad-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Kevin McCarthy Overcome His Very Bad Week?"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fcan-kevin-mccarthy-overcome-his-very-bad-week%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=1456031&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>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is facing widespread criticism within the Republican Party and conservative media over recently revealed comments in which he said he believed President Donald Trump should resign and wished that tech companies would suspend GOP representatives from their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy initially <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/22\/kevin-mccarthy-encourage-donald-trump-resign-january-6\/\">denied<\/a> making the comments, reported on by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of The New York Times. In response, the two reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/22\/kevin-mccarthy-encourage-donald-trump-resign-january-6\/\">released<\/a> several recordings of a Jan. 10, 2021 phone call between McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, then-Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer showing McCarthy\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy and Scalise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/mccarthy-republican-lawmakers.html\">named<\/a> several House Republicans, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, as potentially inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTension is too high, the country is too crazy. I don\u2019t want to look back and think we caused something or we missed something and someone got hurt,\u201d McCarthy said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/13\/matt-gaetz-left-incites-flames\/\">(RELATED: Gaetz: The Left \u2018Lit Actual Flames\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7418601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7418601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 DECEMBER 03: U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) listens during a news conference December 3, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.\u00a0 (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The GOP leader also floated stripping Brooks of his committee assignments, although he ultimately declined to do so. Brooks is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/trump-withdraws-endorsement-mo-brooks\/\">running<\/a> to replace Republican Sen. Richard Shelby.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks declined to weigh in on McCarthy\u2019s remarks, citing the fact that he will not be in the House of Representatives after the end of the current term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to be up to the members of the House in January of 2023,\u201d he told The Dispatch. \u201cI will not be in the House in January 2023. \u2026 So I will leave that issue to those who will be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz, on the other hand, has repeatedly ripped into McCarthy, while appearing to suggest that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan should be Speaker of the House should Republicans take back the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">is the hardest working and most talented member of the Republican House Conference. And every member knows it,\u201d he tweeted on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jim_Jordan<\/a> is the hardest working and most talented member of the Republican House Conference.<\/p>\n<p>And every member knows it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VO7tQ4O9kW\">https:\/\/t.co\/VO7tQ4O9kW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgaetz\/status\/1517730989266685965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a Wednesday GOP conference meeting, in which McCarthy and Scalise attempted to defend their comments, Gaetz reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1519318343475421185\">confronted<\/a> Scalise on how his comments were \u201cpotentially illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also during the meeting, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called on McCarthy to apologize for his comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all need to be accountable for our words. I\u2019ve had to do that before. And that we need to apologize when we say something wrong,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/house\/3468729-house-republicans-give-mccarthy-standing-ovation-brush-off-tapes\/?rl=1\">said<\/a>, adding that she was grateful for McCarthy\u2019s support after she was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/20\/twitter-suspends-marjorie-taylor-greene-coronavirus-misinformation-tweet\/\">banned<\/a> from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s office did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment on the meeting. He reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mccarthy-defends-leaked-audio-slamming-trump-and-calls-on-republicans-to-unify\">received<\/a> a standing ovation from attendees after calling for party unity and suggesting that the recordings did not capture the full extent of his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Although Gaetz and Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs have been critical of McCarthy, he may still ascend to the speakership. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/tucker-carlson-kevin-mccarthy-puppet-january-6-recording\/\"><strong>(RELATED: \u2018Puppet Of The Democratic Party\u2019: Tucker Carlson Trashes \u2018MSNBC Contributor\u2019 Kevin McCarthy)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no problem. He\u2019s going be the next speaker,\u201d Texas Rep. Roger Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-tape-00027986\">downplayed<\/a> the comments as \u201cinside baseball,\u201d adding that he \u201ccan\u2019t wait till Speaker McCarthy is sworn in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If McCarthy maintains his perch atop the House GOP, despite the round of leaks, it will likely be in large part due to his prodigious fundraising. His joint fundraising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/jfc\/summary.php?id=C00766782&#038;cycle=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">committee<\/a>, Take Back the House 2022, has raised more than $65 million and distributed nearly $58 million to House Republicans. Take Back the House 2022 has raised the second-most money of all joint fundraising committees, and donated the most to Republican members of Congress, according to OpenSecrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is facing widespread criticism within the Republican Party and conservative media over recently revealed comments in which he said he believed President Donald Trump should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1480756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456031","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\/1456031","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}