McCarthy: Virginia election 'makes me nervous'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY REID WILSON - 12/01/17 11:27 AM EST

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in an interview he is confident Republicans will retain their majority in next year’s midterm elections, though he admitted the political landscape is challenging for the GOP.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Hill, to air on this week’s episode of the Power Politics podcast, McCarthy said last month’s elections in Virginia — where Democrats outperformed expectations to win the governorship and nearly captured control of the state House of Delegates — had gotten his attention. “I’m not going to say it’s not going to be a competitive time. I look at Virginia, makes me nervous,” McCarthy said. “But we’re more than a year away.”

History argues Democrats will gain seats in the first midterm election after Republicans capture the White House. Nine of the last ten presidents have seen their party lose House seats in the midterms following their first election victory. President George W. Bush was the lone exception, in midterms that came when his approval rating stood at 67 percent.

“Next year is a long way away. I can give you every statistic that says in the first year of a presidency, that party in power, the party that has the White House, loses a double digit number [of seats] inside the House,” McCarthy said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362772-mccarthy-virginia-election-makes-me-nervous

[Yonnie3]

1. As a Virginian, I thank you, Mr. McCarthy, for the complement.

Let me know it I can do something to frighten you.

[lagomorph777]

4. I too am proud to have helped frighten Mr. McCarthy.

[turbinetree]

2. Hey Kevin-----------maybe you should ask your comrade Rohrabacher

if he represents Russia or the US, because apparently he likes Russian first

And I am also as a Virginian, you haven't quite figured it out, have you Kevin, it started 1/27/2017 ------------------------

case closed--------------your party is out dirt bag------------you just created a death panel in both houses of Congress, and your leader of the WH has two indictments and two guilty pleas----------but you "guys and gals' just keep marching forward supporting a fucking TRAITOR---------------have you figured out Kevin, yet

[DBoon]

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[turbinetree]

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[Butterflylady]

5. Yeah, but they didn't have comrade Trump in the oval.

Times are a changing.