{"id":5680,"date":"2023-12-06T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:25:27","slug":"mccarthy-announces-early-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/mccarthy-announces-early-retirement\/njackson\/2023\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Announces Early Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former House Speaker\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he is resigning from Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The California Republican will leave at the end of the year, setting up a special election before 2024&#8217;s U.S. House of Representatives elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple Republican lawmakers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/11\/30\/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-might-leave-congress-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Axios<\/a>&nbsp;last week that the former House Speaker&nbsp;would vacate his long-held congressional seat before the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, McCarthy had reportedly gone so far as to confide in major donors that he intended to \u201cget the hell out\u201d of Congress, further eroding the GOP&#8217;s tenuous three-vote majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&nbsp;have another week or so to decide because if I decide to run again, I have to know in my heart I&#8217;m giving 110%,\u201d McCarthy told financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin last Wednesday at Manhattan&#8217;s DealBook Summit. \u201cI&nbsp;have to know that I want to do that,\u201d the longtime Republican leader continued. \u201cI also have to know if I&#8217;m going to walk away, that I&#8217;m going to be fine with walking away. And so I&#8217;m really taking this time now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaction to the then-rumors from his Republican colleagues was mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI mean, why the hell would he stay?,\u201d one Republican lawmaker opined. \u201cDamn shame,\u201d quipped another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Matt Gaetz\u00a0(R), who lead the intra-party rebellion against McCarthy, had an uncompromising take: \u201cI suspect the former speaker will return to spend more time with the people he&#8217;s always represented \u2013 on Wall Street and K Street. I don&#8217;t imagine he&#8217;ll be walking the streets of Bakersfield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Republicans are worried that McCarthy may use his campaign funds to interfere in the primaries of the eight GOP lawmakers who voted for his removal instead of helping to expand the GOP&#8217;s majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Gov.\u00a0Gavin Newsom\u00a0(D) is expected to hold a special election after McCarthy departs at the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was republished with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/capitol-hill\/mccarthy-announces-early-retirement\/phouck\/2023\/12\/\">American Liberty News.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Speaker\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he is resigning from Congress. The California Republican will leave at the end of the year, setting up a special election before 2024&#8217;s U.S. House of Representatives elections. 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