Kevin McCarthy spent years tying himself into political knots to win over the right-wing fringe of the Republican Party, only to watch his dreams unravel at the final hurdle.
and shift power away from the top of the party to the rank-and-file.
She has called to lower the threshold to oust the speaker to a single vote — something McCarthy has since agreed to. They called themselves the "Young Guns" and published a book with the same name just ahead of the 2010 midterms in which Republicans retook the House. Kevin McCarthy's continued rise in the Republican Party during the Tea Party era — when the fringe group of right-wing populists entered the GOP mainstream — shaped the politician he became.
Kevin McCarthy was so loyal to Donald Trump that the former president gave him the nickname "my Kevin". As Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, breaking McCarthy's office windows in the process, the then-House minority leader pled with his boss to call them off.In private, a furious McCarthy promised to call for Trump's resignation.
But the former president's waning influence is arguably why McCarthy's fallen short of the sizeable House majority he hoped would deliver him his lifelong ambition. Despite offering major concessions to the right faction of his party, Kevin McCarthy struggled to win over enough to support him.
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