Congressman Kevin McCarthy said on Saturday he bet his home on the chances that the GOP would secure a majority in 2022.
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Congressman Kevin McCarthy said on Saturday he would bet his own home on the recovery of most Republicans in the House in 2022.
“We will regain the majority. Five seats are missing,” he told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“I would bet my home. My personal home. Don’t tell my wife, but I bet,” he continued. “This is the smallest majority that Democrats have had in 100 years.”
In the 2020 elections, Democrats retained control of the House. Democrats now have a small majority in the lower house, and Republicans need to draw only five seats to regain control. Democrats have also recovered the Republican Senate, giving President Joe Biden a Democratic stronghold in Congress.
McCarthy also said that “there is no chance” for Republicans to lose in 2022.
Since the days surrounding Biden’s formal tenure in office, other Republicans have also begun to cry out about a possible Republican Party victory in 2022.
Earlier this month, for example, Senator Lindsey Graham said he would try to leverage ex-President Donald Trump’s influence to ensure that the Republican Party retakes the House and Senate in 2022.
In an interview with Politico, Graham said he planned to meet with Trump to discuss the future of the Republican Party and its role in it.
“I will try to convince you that we cannot get there without you, but you cannot keep the Trump movement without the GOP together,” said Graham.
“If we go back in 2022, then it is an affirmation of his policies,” he said of Trump. “But if we lose again in 2022, the narrative will continue, that not only have you lost the White House, but the Republican Party is in a bad situation.”
McCarthy’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to McCarthy’s comments in a statement to Insider:
“No one should be surprised that the minority leader is willing to bet on his home,” said Robyn Patterson, deputy director of communications. “McCarthy doesn’t have much to give after sacrificing his integrity when trying to cancel $ 1,400 survival checks for Americans trying to survive a deadly pandemic.”
Democrats and Republicans are once again at odds with the content of the next stimulus bill. House Democrats this weekend approved a $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, containing $ 1,400 stimulus checks for Americans.
McCarthy, the minority leader in the House, was one of the project’s dissidents, saying in the House plenary that his price was unsustainable.
“The Democrats’ spending bill is very expensive, very corrupt and very liberal for the country,” said the California Republican.
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