{"id":1703710,"date":"2022-10-20T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703710"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:49:05","slug":"mccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy In The Middle: How The Last \u2018Young Gun\u2019 Sought To Rebuild Conservative Trust As Pelosi Went Scorched Earth"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fmccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth%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=1703710&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>It\u2019s mid-September and Kevin McCarthy has baseball on the brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge, he predicts, is \u201cgonna set a record for home runs.\u201d Plus, brags McCarthy, \u201che\u2019s from the San Joaquin Valley.\u201d The Yankees outfielder hails from Linden, California, 200 miles up Highway 99 from McCarthy\u2019s hometown of Bakersfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Valley may be fertile, but it isn\u2019t the California most Americans know unless they read John Steinbeck or listen to Buck Owens. McCarthy thinks the region exports plenty of talent alongside all those grapes. Judge, as the House minority leader sees him, is one of many high-achievers from the Valley \u2014 not unlike Frank Gifford, Earl Warren, and Merle Haggard (with whom McCarthy proudly shares a high school).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a stately leather chair in his office, McCarthy says people from the Valley, California\u2019s forgotten heartland, \u201cknow we\u2019re going to have to work harder.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people think of California, they think of Los Angeles or San Francisco,\u201d he explains. Referencing \u201cGrapes of Wrath,\u201d McCarthy gestures with his hands to show where farmland nestles between mountain ranges. \u201cThis is where people went when things didn\u2019t work right. But they can only make it by hard work,\u201d he says, bursting with all the exuberance of a small-town mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The very next day, Judge beamed a pitch deep into left-center. It was his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth\u2019s record. By October, he\u2019d surpassed Roger Maris, hitting more home runs in a season than any other player in American League history. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Uncharted Territory<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is on the precipice of history, too. Republicans are projected to win back the House of Representatives in a matter of weeks and the Boy from Bakersfield is expected to become speaker of the House \u2014 albeit speaker of a very different body than the one he first joined in 2006. You can chalk those differences up to radical changes ushered in by Nancy Pelosi and frenzied Trump-era Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though she\u2019s from the same state, Pelosi represents San Francisco, a very different cultural crucible than the Central Valley. Where McCarthy is still fighting to earn respect, she is a media favorite, inspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pelosi-review-the-speakers-amanuensis-11588630295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hagiographies<\/a> and memes and naked devotion from the press corps. Now, even anti-establishment Republicans are likely to help elect an establishment fixture as the leader of their caucus, in no small part because of Pelosi\u2019s scorched-earth tenure. McCarthy\u2019s improbable path to the gavel is not one the legacy press is ready to tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While he\u2019s busy consolidating support, reporters are wondering, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/06\/03\/kevin-mccarthy-washington-media-taboo-intelligence-00036894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a> wrote earlier this year, whether McCarthy is \u201ca great big dummy.\u201d But if his speakership seems like a sure thing, that\u2019s only because McCarthy is pulling off the political equivalent of a tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon, balancing the competing interests of a changing party without slipping into the abyss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously an ally of GOP establishment stalwarts such as John Boehner and Paul Ryan, McCarthy is on remarkably good terms with most of his caucus, including the GOP\u2019s right flank. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi&#8217;s band of Democrats burned down the House. But Kevin McCarthy is standing in the rubble, and he&#8217;s making plans to rebuild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":1703713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703710","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}