GOP leader can’t believe people think Trump did anything wrong
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has clearly made the decision he’ll defend Trump, no matter what.
By Lisa Needham - March 04, 2019House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has clearly made the decision he’ll defend Trump, no matter what.
By Lisa Needham - March 04, 2019Trump’s crimes and bigotry don’t bother Kevin McCarthy at all.
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2019Kevin McCarthy didn’t think the border was such an ’emergency’ when his party was in charge of the House.
By Oliver Willis - February 26, 2019Republican Kevin McCarthy is offering an unconvincing defense of his own anti-Semitism.
By Oliver Willis - February 13, 2019But he’s still trying to find someone else to blame for it.
By Lisa Needham - February 13, 2019Republicans only seem to care about anti-Semitism if they can use it to attack Democrats.
By Emily Singer - February 11, 2019Because they have no real legislative agenda, the House GOP is just going to try to put women at risk ‘again and again and again,’ as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy put it.
By Lisa Needham - February 07, 2019GOP Rep. Devin Nunes’ attempt to cover for the Trump administration has been thwarted by House Democrats.
By Emily Singer - February 06, 2019Talk about sore losers.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 01, 2019The GOP loves shutdowns, and they just proved it with their vote.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2019GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump’s tantrums and table-slapping over the shutdown as ‘reasonable.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2019It took Steve King proudly proclaiming himself to be a white nationalist and a white supremacist before House GOP leadership finally took some action.
By Lisa Needham - January 15, 2019The Republican Party has fully embraced both Rep. Steve King, a long-time racist and neo-Nazi sympathizer, and his extremist immigration policies.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 10, 2019California Republican Kevin McCarthy chooses Trump over the people he represents.
By Oliver Willis - January 09, 2019Kevin McCarthy loved the Benghazi investigation and ‘swore’ Trump was on Putin’s payroll. But now he’s singing a different tune.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 11, 2018Kevin McCarthy took to Fox News to defend the Trump campaign’s repeated, secretive interactions with Russian influence agents.
By Oliver Willis - December 10, 2018Loyalty to Trump, no matter the cost, is the only binding principle of today’s Republican Party.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 03, 2018Rep. Kevin McCarthy pushed his fellow California Republicans to fall in line with Trump. That was a huge mistake.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 30, 2018Kevin McCarthy was confronted on the GOP’s lack of diversity in the new Congress. So he named two newly elected white men.
By Oliver Willis - November 15, 2018House Republicans are finally willing to settle for Rep. Kevin McCarthy as their leader.
By Kaili Joy Gray - November 14, 2018House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy admitted in a secret meeting that the GOP is opposing immigration reform to keep its racist voters from abandoning the party in November.
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2018With the House speaker refusing to step aside, the GOP’s internal turmoil could drag on for months and drag everyone down.
By Eric Boehlert - April 18, 2018Thanks to Trump, the GOP leadership has vanishingly little confidence in the party’s ability to make it through the 2018 midterms unscathed.
By Alison R. Parker - January 14, 2018