Democratic spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi of California on Saturday mocked California’s minority leader Kevin McCarthy of California for saying she would bet on her own home that Republicans will gain control of the lower house next year.
In a CPAC panel on Saturday with Representative Jim Banks of Indiana and US Conservative Union President Matt Schlapp, McCarthy said he was so confident that Democrats would lose a majority in the House in 2022 that he would bet his own home on it.
“We will have the majority back. We are five places away,” he said. “I would bet my home. My personal home. Don’t tell my wife, but I bet. This is the smallest majority that Democrats have had in 100 years.”
Pelosi responded hours after McCarthy’s appearance at CPAC in a statement to the Newsweek.
“No one should be surprised that the minority leader is willing to bet on his home. McCarthy doesn’t have much to give after sacrificing his integrity when trying to cancel $ 1400 survival checks for Americans trying to survive a deadly pandemic,” said the e-mailed statement from Robyn Patterson, Pelosi’s deputy director of communications.
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Newsweek contacted McCarthy’s office for comment.
Republicans lost control of the House to Democrats in the 2018 legislative elections. However, the Republican Party frustrated expectations in the 2020 electoral cycle by drawing several seats in the lower house, when it was projected that they would lose more than a dozen.
McCarthy and Pelosi have exchanged jabs in recent weeks on President Joe Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package.
On Friday night, two hours before the House voted to pass extensive stimulus legislation, McCarthy criticized Democrats for pushing the relief bill, which he called the “Pelosi Compensation Bill”.
“Congress will not vote on this bill until 2 am on Saturday,” said McCarthy. “Why? Because Democrats are so ashamed of all the non-COVID waste in this bill that they are trying to pass it in the dead of night.”
Earlier this month, Pelosi scoffed at McCarthy for being a coward by refusing to censor Republican MP Marjorie Taylor Greene for his earlier support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.
“After several conversations and literally fleeing from reporters, minority leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA) made it clear that he refuses to take action against conspiracy theorist, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,” said a statement issued by the office of Pelosi on February 3.
“As a result, the House will continue with a vote to remove Greene from his seat on the esteemed Education and Labor Committee and the House Budget Committee. McCarthy’s failure to lead his party effectively hands over the keys to Greene – an anti-Semite. , adherent to QAnon and Truther from 9/11. “