{"id":1905835,"date":"2023-03-28T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-calls-for-patriotism-america-is-more-than-a-country-it-is-an-idea\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T06:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:29:27","slug":"mccarthy-calls-for-patriotism-america-is-more-than-a-country-it-is-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-calls-for-patriotism-america-is-more-than-a-country-it-is-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy calls for patriotism: \u2018America is more than a country, it is an idea\u2019"},"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\">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%2Fmccarthy-calls-for-patriotism-america-is-more-than-a-country-it-is-an-idea%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=1905835&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79957093\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kamala Harris in Africa amid China's growing influence on continent\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Ghana on Sunday as she embarks on a historic weeklong trip to encourage African leaders to reject China's outreach. 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America is more than a country. Americans is an idea,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cThere is no other nation in the world that is conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that we are all equal. We\u2019re not perfect, but we strive to be a more perfect union. We have to change this course. And this is why I will never give up because I know tomorrow will always be better because of America.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>McCarthy criticized the lack of unity among Republican leaders as a distraction from the effort to \u201cbring this nation back.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is enough problems that the Democrats have brought us,\u201d McCarthy said, noting inflation, energy dependence, the border crisis, and the threat of China and other foreign countries. \u201cI don\u2019t think Republicans should go after one another. We need to bring this nation back. Bring Republicans in, independents and Democrats too, because we cannot handle four more years of Joe Biden. We can\u2019t afford it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>McCarthy added that Congress must take the debate regarding a comprehensive <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban on TikTok<\/a> seriously. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not something to joke around with. This is not something to go soft on them as well,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe need to be prepared to know exactly what China is doing and why are we allowing them into our children. Why are we allowing them to still send the chemicals to Mexico and the fentanyl that is killing 300 Americans everywhere single day? This is something that has to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called on members of Congress to take the lead in reclaiming patriotism. McCarthy reacted to a new poll showing patriotism, faith, and the desire to raise a family are declining in importance throughout the United States, calling it \u201cso concerning.\u201d CHARLES BARKLEY DUNKS ON \u2018DISGRACE\u2019 OF COLLEGE SPORTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1905836,"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":[538],"tags":[5374,3755,6412,6766,3663,7825],"class_list":["post-1905835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-america","tag-calls","tag-country","tag-idea","tag-mccarthy","tag-patriotism"],"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\/1905835","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=1905835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}