Kevin McCarthy gets serious about Liz Cheney

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Cheney's Consultants Are Given an Ultimatum: Drop Her, or Be Dropped

WASHINGTON — A prominent Washington lobbyist close to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, is warning Republican political consultants that they must choose between working for Rep. Liz Cheney or McCarthy, an ultimatum that marks the full rupture between the two House Republicans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cheneys-consultants-given-ultimatum-drop-121619186.html

Jeff Miller, the lobbyist and a confidant of McCarthy’s dating to their youthful days in California politics, has conveyed this us-or-her message to Republican strategists in recent weeks, prompting one fundraising firm to dissociate itself from Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming.

In response, The Morning Group, a fundraising firm she hired to help prepare for a primary next year against a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump, informed her last month they could no longer work on her campaign, according to Republicans familiar with the matter.

[Greget]

When you can't win, cheat.

[DwightShrute]

When you can't win, cheat. Like the dems did in 2020

[L8night]

Kevin McCarthy is Donnie's towel boy

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Kevin McCarthy is Donnie's towel boy

In Home District, McCarthy Faces Some Backlash From the Right

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — As Congress prepared to vote on impeachment for a second time, David Bynum reached out to his former boss — Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader in the House.

Mr. Bynum, 38, was a college intern for Mr. McCarthy more than 16 years ago, when Mr. McCarthy was a rising star in the State Assembly in Sacramento. Mr. Bynum called and texted campaign and D.C. office staffers to urge him, from one Bakersfield Republican to another, to vote to impeach President Trump. A lawyer whose father is a prominent local developer, Mr. Bynum wanted Mr. Trump’s behavior condemned for the history books.

https://newsontheflipside.com/americas/in-home-district-mccarthy-faces-some-backlash-from-the-right/

He later asked a campaign staffer how many other calls supporting impeachment Mr. McCarthy was getting from Bakersfield Republicans. “Very few,’’ he was told.

“They said, ‘We’re getting way more calls from people who are upset that he’s not doing more to support Donald Trump,’” Mr. Bynum said.

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project released an ad calling him a “pathetic enabler” and urging his staff to “pack up your desk and leave that loser behind.” A scathing Sacramento Bee editorial denounced him for having “a soulless lack of principle” and for abusing his authority “to promote big, dangerous lies about the election.”

But in his home district — one of the most conservative in California — Mr. McCarthy has been under fire for not being loyal enough.