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TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. – EXCLUSIVE: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy says he believes he’ll be the following Speaker of the House.
“I believe so. We’ll win the majority and I’ll be Speaker. Yes,” McCarthy mentioned in an unique interview with Fox News on Monday, as he pointed in opposition to the most likely regaining of the House majority by means of the GOP in November’s midterm elections.
And McCarthy, all the way through a forestall in Wyoming, mentioned that the close to sure defeat of Rep. Liz Cheney within the state’s GOP congressional number one on Tuesday can also be observed as a “referendum” at the Democrat-dominated make a selection committee investigating former President Donald Trump’s function within the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
McCarthy teamed up whilst in Wyoming with Harriet Hageman, Cheney’s most sensible GOP challenger in Tuesday’s number one. The House Republican chief counseled Hageman previous this 12 months as she targets to oust Cheney.
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House GOP Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy is interviewed by means of Fox News, on August 15, 2022, in Teton Village, Wyoming.
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Cheney was once essentially the most senior of the ten House Republicans who voted to question the then-president on a price of inciting the fatal assault at the Capitol, which was once waged by means of right-wing extremists and different Trump supporters who aimed to disrupt congressional certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory within the 2020 election.
The Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was once right away centered by means of Trump and his allies, and a couple of months later Cheney was once ousted from her place because the quantity 4 Republican in House management.
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Public opinion polls point out Cheney will most likely get trounced within the Republican number one for Wyoming’s statewide congressional district. She badly trails Hageman, a attorney and flesh presser who has been counseled and closely supported by means of Trump as the previous president targets to oust Cheney from her House seat in a state the place he gained a whopping 70% of the vote in 2020.

Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman campaigns on the Goshen County Fair parade, in Torrington, Wyoming on August 4, 2022.
(Hageman congressional marketing campaign)
Asked about campaigning in opposition to a Republican House incumbent, McCarthy mentioned, “This is unusual, but it’s an unusual situation, too. But Harriet is an amazing candidate….what I like to focus on people who focus on the issues on their district. And that’s what Harriet’s been doing.”
McCarthy predicted that “I don’t think that she’s [Cheney’s] going to win” and “I think it’s going to be a referendum on the January 6 Committee.” And pointing to inflation, a most sensible factor with Americans, the House GOP chief requested “Why wouldn’t Cheney spend her time on that? Why wouldn’t she spend her time focusing on what people across America feel the hardest about?”
Asked to answer the ones and different criticisms from McCarthy, Cheney informed Fox News “it’s really difficult to understand that word salad. Was there an actual sentence in there somewhere?”
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And he closely criticized the frenzy this summer time by means of Cheney’s marketing campaign to induce Wyoming Democrats to move birthday celebration strains and vote within the GOP congressional number one, arguing that “This is a really desperate aspect of Cheney’s campaign.”

Rep. Liz Cheney talks with citizens at Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, on July 16, 2022.
(Liz Cheney re-election marketing campaign )
McCarthy took questions after Trump, in an unique interview with Fox News previous on Monday, claimed that following the FBI raid of his Florida place of abode closing week that “the country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger.”
Trump stressed out that the “temperature has to be brought down,” whilst arguing that the American individuals are “not going to stand” for what he charged was once “another scam.” The former president additionally mentioned he “will do whatever” he can “to help the country.”
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A seek warrant launched on the finish of closing week, following the remarkable seek of a former president’s place of abode, confirmed that Trump had 11 units of labeled paperwork at his house, and that because of doable Espionage Act violations, the Justice Department had possible purpose to habits the quest.
In the times for the reason that FBI’s warrant was once achieved, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security say they’ve observed an build up in “violent threats” in opposition to legislation enforcement, judiciary and govt staff, together with a specific danger to “place a so-called Dirty Bomb in front of FBI headquarters,” consistent with a bulletin. “General calls” for “civil war” and “armed rebellion” have additionally greater in contemporary days on right-wing social media.
“I think President Trump is showing the right aspect to dial it down to help solve that,” McCarthy mentioned. “I think the Department of Justice has a real responsibility to actually do the same.”
And McCarthy mentioned that “the number one thing Attorney General [Merrick Garland] has to do is come before the committee and explain why, why would you take this approach.”
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McCarthy was once in Wyoming for an annual accumulating of most sensible political donors and as a part of his cross-country swing to assist Republicans win again the House majority they misplaced within the 2018 midterms.
He mentioned the forestall in Wyoming is “part of a 25-state trip in August, going throughout helping candidates throughout the country. I’ve been to 13 already, so I’m continuing on the trail to finish out August, helping win back the House.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report