McCarthy Is Still Trying To Crawl Back Into Ex-POTUS' Good Graces
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McCarthy Is Still Trying To Crawl Back Into Ex-POTUS’ Good Graces
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 27: (L-R) Matt Schlapp, Moderator, American Conservative Union Chairman, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Minority Leader, participate in a discussion titled 'Winning Back America' du... MORE
By Zoe Richards
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February 27, 2021 5:28 p.m.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Saturday seemed to drive at an objective he’s been trying to reach for more than a month now: to win back the favor of a departed president who still holds overwhelming sway in the Republican Party.
McCarthy showered praise on former President Donald Trump during a panel at the Conservative Action Political Conference which appears to have become a platform for doing just that.
“We got closer than anyone thought we could get,” McCarthy said, referring in particular to GOP incumbents who defied polls and kept their seats during the November election last year — a win that he attributed to the former president.
“President Trump worked on all these races,” McCarthy said, regaling the audience with a story about Trump holding “rallies over the phone” for candidates from his hospital bed when he was sick with COVID-19 in October.
The lavished praise on the former president, whose conspiracies of a stolen election caused notable furor among Republican voters in Georgia who remained focused on the president’s loss even during the Jan. 5 runoffs that likely helped deliver wins to both Democratic candidates who claimed the state’s Senate seats, came after Politico reported early Saturday that Trump held renewed animosity toward the minority leader.
Three people within Trump’s close orbit told Politico that the ex-president was stewing over McCarthy even after he flew down to Mar-a-Lago last month to repair the damage he had done after suggesting that Trump may have played a hand in the violence that broke out as a mob of Trump supporters descended and laid siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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