WASHINGTON — Before former President Donald Trump stepped onstage for his first speech in Washington since leaving the White House, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was at the same venue talking up the prospects of winning an enduring Republican majority in November.
“I believe in this next election, this is a 50-year election. Never before are we going to feel this type of opportunity in a year of redistricting,” McCarthy said Tuesday at the Trump-headlined America First Agenda summit. “We can lock in a conservative majority for the decade.”
Speaking on a panel with former Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., McCarthy had been asked about lessons from the GOP takeover of the House in 1994. McCarthy said his conference would start to unveil its agenda on Wednesday in a move reminiscent of the Gingrich-led “Contract with America.”
