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WASHINGTON - Discontent with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is on the rise in the House, as Republicans increasingly fearful of a loss by President Donald Trump on Election Day gear up for an intraparty war over the future of the GOP.
A cluster of GOP lawmakers is starting to privately question whether the California Republican is putting loyalty to the president over the good of the conference. And there is a small group of members discussing whether someone should challenge him for minority leader if Trump is defeated Nov. 3.
The matter bubbled to the surface this week with the primary election of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a fringe House candidate in Georgia who espouses the QAnon conspiracy theory and has made numerous racist comments. Multiple Republicans implored McCarthy to help defeat her by supporting her primary opponent. But McCarthy refused, phoning the candidate in an apparent peace accord before the primary, while Trump embraced her on Twitter this week as a "future Republican Star."
However, the frustration with McCarthy had already been brewing for weeks as Trump's polling has sagged behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. According to interviews with more than 10 House Republicans - all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be frank - some GOP lawmakers are worried that McCarthy has tied the conference too much to Trump, refusing to stand up to the president or act as a buffer to distinguish the conference from him.
Others are also furious that he didn't shield them from a recent Trump campaign demand that House members donate to the president's reelection effort.
"There's no doubt that McCarthy is a Trump loyalist, through and through," said Doug Heye, a former House GOP leadership staffer who has known McCarthy personally for decades. "I think the challenge for everyone in the...
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into a variety of matters such as hush-money payments paid to women on Trump’s behalf, property valuations and employee compensation.
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The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus brief with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Yakutake v. Hawaii, challenging two
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"Zero chance" family of hostages could face jail for paying terror group.
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Trump's comments showed an "unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players."
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) will be facing off against Joe Biden's pick, David Chipman, to lead the ATF over his blatant contempt for gun owners.
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The study, which is based both on desk research and multiple waves of qualitative primary research,
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Princeton professor and animal rights activist Peter Singerargued in aradio interview last week that it is “reasonable” for healthcare providers, insurance companies, and government programs such as Medicare or Medicaid to kill mentally disabled babies.
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Twenty-one years ago, a Wall Street Journal reporter and a popular academic pundit issued a stark warning: The proliferation of opposition research in U.S. political campaigns was debasing American...
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Voters who support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are more likely than those who support President Trump to say they plan to vote by mail, according to a new poll.
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Pete Hegseth, joined by four veterans, discuss the sacrifices made by men and women in uniform
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Twitter's new anti-woke boss Elon Musk has called for an investigation into the funding of Democrat activist groups that "want to control your access to information."
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Leading off a report on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for Tuesday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Julianna Goldman proclaimed: "Secretary Clinton has been trying to frame her campaign around issues like immigration reform....But her message has been muddled by a series of recent distractions, including questions about donations to the Clinton Foundation. And this morning her campaign is once again trying to break through the noise."
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On Tuesday, the 84th Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, tore into the affront to free speech on college campuses across the country.
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President Trump has reportedly made plans to live-tweet the first two Democratic primary debates scheduled for next week against the advice of his closest aides.
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Research consistently finds that children raised in an intact family have more positive outcomes than children who are not.
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Tucker Carlson exposes the Leftist infiltration of science in the name of equity and inclusion.
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Another silly, counterfactual opinion by and Obama judge goes down in flames.
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Seventeen people have been arrested in an unplanned protest outside Downing Street following the Conservatives' election victory, the Met police say.
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Trump suggests Iran mistakenly shot down U.S. drone, says it'd be "big difference" if American was in the drone
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A New Jersey detention officer who allegedly wrote on Facebook that a 5-year-old boy fatally shot in North Carolina “should’ve ducked” has been suspended, county officials said.
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The nation's biggest tech corporations have joined forces with the Chamber of Commerce too keep foreign visa-holders in American jobs.
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