Kevin McCarthy convenes top House candidates in Washington, promotes diversity of GOP recruits
By: Lisa Bennatan
It is great news to see that the GOP is reaching out to and having an impact in minority communities all across the country. Their outreach to women and veterans is outstanding as well. The GOP made major gains at democrats expense in congress in 2020 with the number of women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women as well as combinations of the above. That trend is continuing and now they are running minority community candidates in the most urban and democrat of districts, no longer simply conceding these bi coastal urban wastelands to the democrat party. It is a lie to say that the GOP or it’s members are a racist party and a libel and slander to call them white supremacy supporters.
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Kevin McCarthy convenes top House candidates in Washington, promotes diversity of GOP recruits
House GOP recruiting diverse candidates for 2022 election, McCarthy says
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy convened the first round of Young Guns candidates in Washington on Wednesday — and he said the House GOP is recruiting its most diverse candidate class yet.
McCarthy , who could be poised to take the speaker’s gavel if Republicans win back the House in 2022, told Fox News that recruiting candidates with diverse backgrounds represents what he views as an expansion of the GOP brand across the country.
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"In the last election, 15 Democrats lost. They all lost to a Republican woman, a Republican minority or a veteran," McCarthy said. "And that's even growing if you look at the number of women who are running, the number of Hispanic Republicans are running."
"It just shows the party continues to expand and more opportunities in every area and in every city of America," he continued.
HOUSE GOP LEADER MCCARTHY SPOTLIGHTS FIRST GROUP OF ‘YOUNG GUNS’ RUNNING IN 2022 MIDTERMS
Young Guns, which consists of high-potential Republican House candidates, started in 2007. The first round of the 2022 candidates includes eight candidates, all of whom have either previously served in the House or ran for a spot in Congress during the 2020 cycle.
"The Young Guns are the candidates that are the very best out there that we pick to take on Democrats," McCarthy said.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., responds to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, about the behavior of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and her repeated "anti-Muslim" attacks against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The group of Young Guns, announced in November, consists of Bruce Poliquin of Maine; Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, Esther Joy King of Illinois, Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey, Amanda Adkins of Kansas, Ryan Zinke of Montana and Monica De La Cruz and Wesley Hunt, both of Texas.
Candidates who qualify for the Young Guns program get access to donor resources and are promoted by the National Republican Congressional Committee, among other benefits.
De La Cruz, who’s running to represent Texas’ 15th District in the Rio Grande Valley, said the effort she put into her failed 2020 campaign is already paying off this cycle.
"I'm honored to be part of the Young Guns program because what it means is that we are not only a district that is in the eye of the national party, but it shows that all of our hard work and our grassroots efforts from 2020 is paying off," told Fox News.
Wesley Hunt, from Texas. Young Guns, which consists of high-potential Republican House candidates, started in 2007.
Hunt, who lost to Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher in 2020, is running in Texas' 38th District, which formed as a result of the 2020 census.
"Sometimes when you lose, you really win, and it takes a lot of resilience, I think, to be in this business and to be in this game," Hunt told Fox News. "But I'm here to fight and I'm an Apache pilot, West Point graduate, and these kinds of things like grit or something that are really important to me, we're showing it right now."
Esther Joy King of Illinois.
King lost in 2020 to then-Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos, who announced her retirement earlier this year.
"Being in the Young Gun program is a representation of the grassroots momentum that we've built over the 2020 campaign and into the 2022 campaign," King, a judge advocate general, told Fox News.
McCarthy said he expects more candidates to join the Young Guns.
"This is one of the very best crops, and this crop will continue to grow," he told Fox News.
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You mean the Kevin McCarthy whose in-laws falsely claimed that they were Cherokee so they could get over $7 million in government contracts, and some were in McCarthy district that he supported, That Kevin McCarthy?
Sounds like more BS from a wannabe.
He’s the next Speaker of the House unless Trump wants the job. So, when we take back the House next year we have two great choices to be Speaker. Moving the speakership from San Francisco to Bakersfield is the perfect symbol for the heartland reasserting itself against the bicoastal urban elites.
Bakersfield is the perfect spot for wannabe's. He could support his in-laws in more fakeness..
You realize that Bakersfield is not exactly a poor community?
It’s a better place to live than San Francisco is now
I heard his second cousin once removed takes the SALT deduction! And is old college roommate's cousin's husband once got into a barroom brawl.
Too bad you didn't read about McCarthy's involvement in the fake wannabe con job.
Feel free to carry on with your ignorance of the subject.
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Some of the posters say that I'm deflecting from the article, yet it's about McCarthy trying to get more minorities/diversity into the party so his in-laws become fake minorities which he supports by voting for the projects which I pointed out which is relevant..LOL
It’s sad that those on the left play the race card from the bottom of the deck in a way to defame the right or change the subject. Been going on non stop at least since the 1st obama campaign. The idea that my kind of traditional conservative values are appealing to people of color of all races scares the left to its core.
You are deflecting and derailing but since you are a liberal doing it on a conservatives seed it’s openly allowed here as a matter of policy.
That’s for sure…
Then create your own seed about it if you think it a significant news story or an opinion. It certainly has nothing to do with the GOP outreach to minority voters and minority candidates to run for congress. Stop polluting my seed with your off topic nonsense post content.