Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid on Tuesday slammed Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) after the House Speaker appeared to walk back a remark questioning Donald Trump’s electability that roiled some of the former president’s supporters.
McCarthy earlier in the day during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” said of a potential 2024 Trump rematch with Joe Biden, “Can he win that election? Yeah he can. The question is, is he the strongest to win the election? I don’t know that answer.”
McCarthy walked back his remarks in a subsequent interview with the right-wing outlet Breitbart in which he said Trump was “stronger today than he was in 2016.”
McCarthy blamed the media for trying to use his comments to divide the former president from his Republican congressional allies.
“As usual, the media is attempting to drive a wedge between President Trump and House Republicans as our committees are holding Biden’s DOJ accountable for their two-tiered levels of justice,” McCarthy told Breitbart.
“The only reason Biden is using his weaponized federal government to go after President Trump is because he is Biden’s strongest political opponent, as polling continues to show.”
Madrid wasn’t buying it.
“Is McCarthy now in the lead of ‘the most humiliated Republican in Congress by Trump” competition?,’” Madrid tweeted Tuesday.
