Kevin McCarthy’s GOP is Tired of Hearing the Truth

As Donald Trump continues to push election lies, the House's top Republican chastises those who push back.

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In a private appearance in front of a small crowd at Mar-a-Lago in late April, former President Donald Trump pointed supporters to the phony recount taking place in Maricopa County, Arizona, and insisted once again that he won the 2020 presidential election.

“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they find thousands and thousands and thousands of votes, so we’re going to watch that very closely. After that, we’ll watch Pennsylvania and we’ll watch Georgia, and you’re gonna watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire—they found a lot of votes up in New Hampshire just now, you saw that, because this was a rigged election,” he said. “Everybody knows it.”

The election wasn’t rigged, of course, and while Trump’s monomaniacal insistence that it was has convinced a majority of Republican voters, most congressional Republicans understand that Joe Biden is the rightfully elected president.

One person who knows this well is Kevin McCarthy. He’s said so, repeatedly.

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  1. Kurt Von Fuchs

    Those of us living in the real world cannot ever MoveOn. We need to hold all 146 Republicans who voted did not survive the election accountable I'm not sure how that's gonna happen

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    Bono Vox

    Like a woman inquiring to her boyfriends ex-lover for insight on her current love of her life....The New American Idol Barock Star Obama and his wicked witch wannabe successor Hilary God B Dammed Clinton were on to something by saying....there are bitter clingers to their god and guns and a basket full of DEPLORABLES that infest the Grand Old Party...For the love of God and country, please INDICT TRUMP, America’s Biggest Sore Loser and party crasher...and his two turd sons, Uday and Qusay, I mean Eric and Junior...like father, like son...and impeach and remove every single Republican legislator that abides the hysterical,as they have been destructive, LIES (ALL GOOD REPUBLICANS SHALL NEVER FORGET 1/6/21) shamelessly repeated by the world’s formerly most successful conman’s art of the steal bullshit..
    Gotta run on. GO DISPATCH! Thanks for taking my rant. Keep up the good work

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    Ben Connelly

    Excellent. Thanks Steve. We don’t hear a lot from you outside of the podcast. Glad you published this.

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  4. Ellen Elmore

    The only way this hold Trump has on the Republican party will end, is when the orange god king either becomes physically unable to run for president or he dies. Or (least likely to happen) he gets convicted of a crime. Until then, he rules the party with the party's blessing. They will never leave him and the voters will never leave Trump. No amount of persuasion will change the Trumpbots' minds. They are all in for Trump as long as he is a viable candidate.

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    mgrad92

    Old head conservatives (like me) can remember scoffing at Ron Suskind's reporting on the George W. Bush administration's novel relationship with the truth (https://bit.ly/3eSU8oM).

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    Jason Gibson

    This is a crossroads issue actually. Liz Cheney MUST prevail. If she doesn't then I have no home

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    Phil H

    "McCarthy knows that Trump is lying about the election. He knows that Cheney is telling the truth. And he’s choosing Trump anyway. A politician with a modicum of moral sensibility might be embarrassed by the embrace of such an obvious falsehood. Kevin McCarthy is not such a politician"

    Trump has done to the GOP what Bill Clinton did to the Democratic Party over 20 years ago -- made party members defend outright falsehoods from their onetime President. But at least Bill Clinton, even as he perjured himself, never incited a riot against members of Congress.

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  8. Charles Heard

    Great work, Steve. We're in a terrible place, and what kind of dork wears brown shoes with a dark blue suit?

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    Brian E. Denton

    The United States of America no longer has a legitimate party.

    This is a disaster.

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    Jeff Greene

    I've known McCarthy since he was an intern for Congressman Bill Thomas and the megalomaniacal President of the Young Republicans in California. He's always been a self-important, narcissistic, Machiavellian douche, without a principled bone in his body. Back when our groups waged war against each other at party conventions, he regularly mocked our principled conservative views as narrow-minded failures, and always supported the "common sense" "big tent" candidates and strategies as the path to electoral success. It is no longer moderation and reason he's supporting, but it still completely encapsulates his life-long, single-minded desperation for personal power, regardless of sacrificing principles or any larger operational world view.

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