By: Eric Mack & Theodore Bunker
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is willing to bet his house on the Republican Party regaining control in the 2022 midterm elections.
“Not [just] a chance, we’re going to get the majority back,” Rep. McCarthy told American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp during a CPAC panel discussion Saturday, per The Hill. “We’re five seats away.”
“I would bet my house” on it, he added. “My personal house. Don’t tell my wife, but I would bet it.”
McCarthy pointed to the 2020 House GOP gains that polls unanimously claimed would never come, praising former President Donald Trump’s tireless work campaigning.
“All the polls said we would lose, but on election day the voters said, ‘no, there’s a new path,'” McCarthy said.
“They said we were going to lose 20 seats that night. No one said we would win seats. My dearest friend who is a hard-core Republican said the best we could do is lose 10.”
McCarthy added, this past election was the first time since 1994 no Republican incumbent lost and hailed Republicans dealing Democrats the slimmest majority they have held in 100 years.
“We beat 15 Democrats and you know who those Democrats lost to? Conservative women and conservative minorities, each and every one of them,” McCarthy said.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in her address to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference that “nobody has been hit” by online censorship “like President Donald Trump.”
The senator said in her speech that if she “asked for a show of hands, how many of you have lived with being blocked, or shadow-banned, or throttled, or censored? I say a lot of hands going up.”
She added that “nobody has been hit by this like President Donald Trump.
Blackburn continued. “Then they were going to block him — send a message … then they were going to permanently ban him … The leader of the free world.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2021 that former President Donald Trump “ain’t going anywhere,” even though that’s what Democrats want.
“There are a whole lot of voices in Washington that want to just erase the last four years,” Cruz said during his speech, — titled “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture” — which drew a standing ovation.
He added, “They look at Donald J. Trump and they look at the millions and millions of people inspired, who went to battle fighting alongside President Trump and they’re terrified and they want him to go away. Let me tell you this right now: Donald J. Trump ain’t going anywhere.”
