The new date is April 23, 2022, 11:30am.
Photos that surfaced Friday afternoon of right-wing firebrand Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) donning women's lingerie were only the latest embarrassment for House Republicans.
Kevin McCarthy will be the House Minority Leader on November 12, 2020. Samuel Corum poses for a picture.
He has two previous speeding violations in the past six months and was charged with driving with a revoked license after being pulled over for a traffic stop.
The most damning story of the week was when the New York Times published an excerpt from the book "This Will Not Pass" by Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, which claimed McCarthy initially planned to push former President Donald Trump.
McCarthy quickly moved to deny the report, calling it false and wrong, but by Thursday night, MSNBC shared a leaked audio conversation between McCarthy and Cheney.
McCarthy said that Trump admitted at least some responsibility for his supporters storming the Capitol.
On Friday, a hard-right Rep. gave testimony in a challenge to her candidacy over her alleged participation in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The photos of Cawthorn, who claims he lives by traditional Christian values, drinking and wearing women's lingerie at a party, were published by Politico on Friday afternoon.
The January 6 committee filed deposition excerpts that claimed several prominent House Republicans, including Jim Jordan, had meetings with the White House chief of staff.
McCarthy urged Cawthorn to turn himself around after he lied about D.C. political figures inviting him to orgies and doing cocaine in front of him.
The Republicans are in a tough spot as the campaign season for the midterms gets underway. According to polls, Republicans are in a strong position to win back the House and Senate, as Democrats struggle to overcome President Joe Biden's slumping approval rating and issues like sky high inflation. McCarthy has been open about his ambitions to become House speaker if Republicans regain the chamber, and has publicly tried to maintain good relations with the growing hard-right wing of his caucus. According to Thursday's Times report, McCarthy told fellow lawmakers he hoped big tech companies would remove the accounts of Republicans who pushed Trump's false claims of widespread election fraud.
McCarthy could be saved by Trump. According to the Washington Post, the ex-president told McCarthy he was not upset with his comments after the leaked audio was published. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that McCarthy and other early Republican critics were wrong and supported him.
McCarthy said he planned to push for Trump's resignation after the January 6 attack.
McCarthy Rebukes Cawthorn Over Allegations of Orgies And Cocaine Use.
McCarthy said Trump admitted some responsibility.
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