Analysis: McCarthy’s failure to lead House Republicans started before Jan. 6
The more his members pressed him, the more annoyed McCarthy got. “You want to give me your voting card? You never want to do that,” McCarthy responded, according to five Republicans who were on a Jan. 1, 2021, call in which the certification process was discussed. He refused to say what he would do when he put his own voting card into the electronic slots in the House chamber that signaled his decision about whether to certify Biden’s victory.
Those private statements conflict with the approach McCarthy has taken to the ex-president since late January 2021, after he visited Trump at his Palm Beach, Fla., resort and committed his loyalty to the former president to try to unify the Republican Party heading into the 2022 midterms.But McCarthy’s refusal to provide leadership in the days running up to Jan. 6 set the stage for bitterly dividing his GOP caucus.
When pressed by reporters these days, he will simply note that he hasn’t spoken to Trump since the day in December 2020 when he congratulated Biden on his victory. But that reputation for being everyone’s best friend also left McCarthy without a key ingredient in leadership: the ability to instill fear in his underlings.In the nearly 16 months since his caucus split apart on Jan. 6, Rep. Liz Cheney has been the only Republican to face a public punishment — as McCarthy helped drive her from his leadership team when she continued to speak out against Trump’s authoritarian ways.
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