Posted on 01/07/2022 5:29:06 AM PST by cotton1706
But it also may have further cost him politically with a group of GOP hardliners who are close to former President Donald Trump and who could ultimately help spoil McCarthy's bid to become the next House speaker should Republicans win back the majority in 2022.
Trumpworld fixture Steve Bannon this week joined the chorus of GOP detractors who seem to have no use for McCarthy, telling his podcast listeners that the current crop of House GOP leaders are "just sitting there as controlled opposition."
Though Bannon didn't specifically namecheck the eight-term California Republican, he did pine for "leadership that is prepared to make sure our country is not stolen."
Bannon isn't an elected official and he doesn't have a vote in the House. But his voice is a potent one among the MAGA faithful. He also joins a growing clique of incredibly strange bedfellows that includes Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Matt Gaetz of Florida who all are showing burgeoning contempt for McCarthy.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.in ...
#NoRINOs - NoWay!
Unless McCarthy drops dead he WILL be the next Speaker.
Bwahaha!!!!!!
Aren’t there enough republicans in Bakersfield who are on to him? Primary challenger. Protest candidate only. Feb. 14 is the cutoff date to apply.
You see people THAT is our problem. No one wants to be seen eating our own-no leadership.
This is to suppress the conservative vote and bolster Leftists.
All failures at Young guns
“In between Trump rewarded ardent supporter Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Within weeks McCarthy raced down to Palm Beach, Florida, to bend the knee at Mar-a-Lago, a reunion Trump happily exploited as a photo-op.”
Trump likes something about McCarthy.
That something is called ambition.
Kevin McCarthy wants to be the next Speaker of the House.
Depends on how you define "failure".
I'm sure Mr. Cantor and Mr. Ryan are now multimillionaires, and whether Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker or resigns in frustration, he will be soon be as well.
This article is gaslighting. There are a few outliers like MTG but otherwise no schism in the swamp GOP. If the GOP wins in 2022 McCarthy and China Mitch will be the leaders.
Trump likes pols (and anyone else) who butter him up.
Just ask Sen. Graham.
Business Insider is far left media.
This is to suppress the conservative vote and bolster Leftists.
You’ll see plenty of “Trump is taking over the GOP” gaslighting nonsense on the right, too.
No love lost for McCarthy, but just a reminder the Business Insider is another organ of the State masquerading as a news source.
Exactly. Don’t fall for this people.
Fake News
Business Insider is a reliable, pro-Brandon publication. I read nothing they publish.
We’re counting on our fingers the House Republicans who are “critical of McCarthy,” Meanwhile, 145 House Republicans voted to make Liz Cheney a leader after she voted to remove President Trump based on a Democrat hoax. It’s amusing to see both the left and right push the lie that Trump is taking over the swamp GOP. Nothing could be further from the truth.
What if Trump wants the job?
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