Exclusive: Kevin McCarthy Details GOP Plan to Retake House Majority: 31 Democrats Sit in Districts D

[Right_in_Virginia]

Exclusive:  Kevin McCarthy Details GOP Plan to Retake House Majority: 31 Democrats Sit in Districts Donald Trump Won
Breitbart, Aug 3, 2019

Republicans only need to net win back 20 seats from Democrats to retake their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy broke down the GOP plan to do just that in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that aired Saturday morning.

The one-hour-long in-studio exclusive interview which aired on Breitbart News Saturday and will air again on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, is the first and most comprehensive the House’s leading Republican has given detailing such plans by the GOP.

In addition to the political focus in this interview, McCarthy also discussed immigration policy and tech policy with Breitbart News. McCarthy laid out the numbers that Republicans need to hit to win back their majority in 2020 alongside President Donald Trump’s efforts to win re-election.
 
“There are 31 seats that Democrats sit in today that President Trump carried,” McCarthy said. “Of those 31, 13 of them President Trump carried by more than six points. So, here you have the socialist wing of the party trying to take them further left, when the only way they have the majority is actually winning in Republican areas—areas that would be swing districts.”

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The 13 districts currently represented by Democrats that Trump won by more than six percent are as follows: Minnesota’s 7th district, New York’s 22nd, Oklahoma’s 5th, South Carolina’s 1st, Maine’s 2nd, New Mexico’s 2nd, New York’s 11th, Pennsylvania’s 8th, New York’s 19th, Michigan’s 8th, Utah’s 4th, Virginia’s 7th, and New Jersey’s 3rd.
 
The other 18 districts currently represented by Democrats in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton include: New Jersey’s 2nd, Wisconsin’s 3rd, Michigan’s 11th, Iowa’s 2nd, Illinois’ 14th, Iowa’s 1st, Iowa’s 3rd, Virginia’s 2nd, Pennsylvania’s 17th, New York’s 18th, New Hampshire’s 1st, Georgia’s 6th, Minnesota’s 2nd, Arizona’s 1st, New Jersey’s 5th, Nevada’s 3rd, New Jersey’s 11th, and Illinois’ 17th.



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[Right_in_Virginia]

Informative interview. 

[austingirl]

If the Republicans take back the House, will they build the wall or kill Obamacare this time? I doubt it.

[libertybele]

If the Republicans take back the House, will they build the wall or kill Obamacare this time? I doubt it.

The GOP(e) is notorious for doing nothing when opportunity lands in their laps.  Many of them campaigned on building the wall and dismantling Bammycare; yet here we sit.  Broken promises after broken promises, election after election.  I don't think the GOP will hold the Senate nor retake the House.  Trump has made a little headway recently on the wall, but he's going to have to do a whole lot more to secure his re-election.   Just my opinion.

[Mesaclone]

If the Republicans take back the House, will they build the wall or kill Obamacare this time? I doubt it.

That's a simplistic view that ignores reality. The reality is that a bare majority is not enough for items like the Wall or fully killing Obamacare...there will always be a few RINO's who won't go along, and that is not the fault of the other 90% of elected Republicans. What is needed is a majority that is strong enough to withstand losing 10-15 votes on controversial items...Likewise in the Senate, a majority of at least 5-7 is needed to push past RINO resistance. In fact, to get REAL change through the Senate, it takes 60...and that's a real uphill battle to reach....but 55 or so can get a good bit done when it comes to fiscal issues.

So please, quit with this "the Repubs were in charge but got nothing done" when it ignores the reality that a simple slim majority is insufficient for pushing an agenda forward. In effect, such a statement is a lie in that it is uttered with an intent to deceive. Having slim majorities necessitates compromises with the RINO's that most here would find unacceptable.

So feel free to blame the "GOP" when they have majorities that are RINO-proof...and still get nothing done. Until then, we'll all have to live with the fact that the RINO's can block small majorities and hold any conservative agenda hostage. So, blame the RINO's, not the rest of the party that is trying to get real change pushed through.

[austingirl]

That's a simplistic view that ignores reality. The reality is that a bare majority is not enough for items like the Wall or fully killing Obamacare...there will always be a few RINO's who won't go along, and that is not the fault of the other 90% of elected Republicans. What is needed is a majority that is strong enough to withstand losing 10-15 votes on controversial items...Likewise in the Senate, a majority of at least 5-7 is needed to push past RINO resistance. In fact, to get REAL change through the Senate, it takes 60...and that's a real uphill battle to reach....but 55 or so can get a good bit done when it comes to fiscal issues.

So please, quit with this "the Repubs were in charge but got nothing done" when it ignores the reality that a simple slim majority is insufficient for pushing an agenda forward. In effect, such a statement is a lie in that it is uttered with an intent to deceive. Having slim majorities necessitates compromises with the RINO's that most here would find unacceptable.

So feel free to blame the "GOP" when they have majorities that are RINO-proof...and still get nothing done. Until then, we'll all have to live with the fact that the RINO's can block small majorities and hold any conservative agenda hostage. So, blame the RINO's, not the rest of the party that is trying to get real change pushed through.

@Mesaclone
I guess in your simplistic view, uttered with intent to deceive, RINOS aren't Republican. There is nothing untrue or deceptive in my statement.

[corbe]

   For the last 40 years the GOP has always taken the path of least resistance.