“At every moment since, frankly, the aftermath of the election in 2020, when Minority Leader McCarthy has had the opportunity to do the right thing or do something that serves his own political purpose, he always chooses to serve his own political purpose.”
, arguing in a Sunday interview that he’s positioning himself as “the leader of the pro-Putin wing” of the Republican Party.if the Republicans seize control of the House should be disqualifying.
“The idea that somehow the party is now no longer going to support the Ukrainian people, which—for somebody who has the picture of Ronald Reagan on the wall on his office in the Capitol, the notion that now Kevin McCarthy is going to make himself the leader of the pro-Putin wing of my party is just a stunning thing. It’s dangerous, he knows better.”
“I think people are going to be sitting in a recession, and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” he told Punchbowl News last week. “Ukraine is important, but at the same time, it can’t be the only thing they do, and it can’t be a blank check.”