Kevin McCarthy occasionally slips, tells accidental truths, and then scrambles to deal with the consequences of his unintended candor. As stevebenen writes, this is exactly what happened with to House speaker yesterday.
One of the most important things to know about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is that he occasionally slips, tells accidental truths, and then scrambles to deal with the consequences of his unintended candor.
Indeed, this has been a staple of the California Republican’s congressional career. In 2015, for example, McCarthyabout the political purpose of the GOP’s Benghazi committee, sparking an intense backlash from his ostensible allies. About a year later, in comments he didn’t know would reach the public, McCarthy joked to House Republicans that Donald Trump wasIn the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
his colleagues that he was prepared to tell Trump he should resign the presidency. Another controversy soon followed.Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday declared Donald J. Trump the “strongest political opponent” against President Biden, rushing to make clear his loyalty to the former president just hours after suggesting in a televised interview that Mr. Trump might not be the Republican presidential candidate best positioned to prevail in the 2024 election.
The trouble began roughly 24 hours ago, when Congress’ top Republican appeared on CNBC and appeared skeptical about the strength of Trump’s 2024 candidacy. McCarthy initially expressed confidence that the former president could prevail in a rematch against President Joe Biden, before he“Can [Trump] win that election? Yeah, he can,” McCarthy said. “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election? I don’t know that answer.”A variety of obvious questions soon followed.
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