He joked that, should he become speaker, he would struggle to resist striking Pelosi with the gavel that comes with the job. 'It will be hard not to hit her with it but I will bang it down,' McCarthy said, according to a reporter who was at the event
It was the latest round in a nasty spat between the Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Pelosi, the chamber's top Democrat.
At a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Tennessee, McCarthy spoke with optimism about prospects for his party retaking the House in mid-term elections next year. "It will be hard not to hit her with it but I will bang it down," McCarthy said, according to a Washington Post reporter who was at the event."Don't you think America has had enough political violence?," tweeted Representative Ted Lieu of California.Fellow California Representative Eric Swalwell said McCarthy "needs to resign," tweeting: "America has suffered enough violence around politics.
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