ANAHEIM—House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) urged conservatives to oppose policies that have led to soaring gas prices and inflation, rising crime and fentanyl deaths, and political activism in public schools at a California Republican Party Convention in Anaheim, Calif., over the weekend.
McCarthy praised Trump, bashed Democratic Party policies, and took a few jabs at the news media at a convention banquet on April 23. He alluded to news coverage alleging that he and other establishment Republicans had conspired to push then-President Donald Trump to resign after last year’s Jan. 6 protests in Washington, D.C.
“We are fighting a long fight. We were in the fight together. We will never back down. We are only 199 days from elections. The fate of liberty hangs in the balance,” he said.
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