McCarthy Is Over Two Weeks, Too Late In Withdrawing Support for His Handpicked Candidate Ted Howze
Still…McCarthy Never Denies AND Did Not Rule Out That The House GOP Would Not Still Come to Howze’s Aid in the Fall
After mounting evidence that his handpicked candidate, Ted Howze, in California’s 10th District was a serial bigot and racist, GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy finally decided to withdraw his endorsement.
Only problem is that it took McCarthy nearly three weeks and multiple reports of Howze’s hateful rhetoric for him to finally come to the same conclusion that the voters of CA-10 knew from the beginning – that Howze is an extreme racist, harboring hatred that has no place in Congress.
While the NRCC and the California GOP faced the facts and withdrew their support for Howze last week, McCarthy took the long weekend to think it over. Ultimately, it took a video of Howze telling his supporters that McCarthy pledged to support Howze’s campaign if the race looked winnable in the fall, that finally pushed McCarthy to withdraw his endorsement. BUT McCarthy still hasn’t denied that he hadn’t assured Howze and his campaign that he and the House GOP wouldn’t come to Howze’s rescue this fall.
“Let’s be clear, today’s rescinded endorsement was not a display of strong character for GOP Minority Leader McCarthy in the face of hateful bigotry and racism in his own backyard. Instead, it was a carefully worded and politically calculated backpedaling that is too little too late to be seen as anything more than an example of how out of touch today’s Republican Party is in Washington,” said DCCC Spokesperson Andy Orellana.
Read more here or below on how it took nearly three weeks for McCarthy and the House GOP to come to grips with the hate and racism of their handpicked candidate to supposedly help them to take back the Majority.
Politico: Top Republican Yanks Endorsement Of House Candidate Who Made Offensive Social Media Posts
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is rescinding his endorsement of GOP congressional candidate Ted Howze after POLITICO uncovered dozens of derogatory social media posts from his accounts.
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Howze, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Josh Harder in a central California battleground district, has been hemorrhaging official support since POLITICO published two stories detailing a trove of inflammatory social media posts, which he claims he did not author and were shared on his accounts by other, unnamed individuals. The House Republican campaign arm yanked him out of its “Young Guns” program for top campaigns, and the state GOP and several local officials revoked their endorsements.
But McCarthy did not formally withdraw his backing until Monday, after POLITICO asked him for comment on a video it obtained of Howze telling supporters last week that McCarthy pledged to support his campaign if the race looks winnable in the fall.
“We’ve talked with Leader McCarthy,” Howze told supporters in a video call obtained by POLITICO. “They’ve told us, keep doing what we’re doing. Raise money. If in September we are one of the competitive races in California that they will be here to come into the race.”
In the video, Howze addresses a woman asking about news reports that Howze’s campaign would not receive money from Washington Republicans. He tells her that the National Republican Congressional Committee has “never committed to give us a dime in this race. And they won’t give a dime to any race until September.”
And he lashed out at national and local media reporting on his posts. “They’re trying to half-deal in this truth to try to make a bigger deal out of this,” he said in the video. “Bottom line is this: We work our tails off, we keep raising money, come September we’ll be fine.”
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