Kevin McCarthy Says John Fetterman ‘Should Be Leader of the Democratic Party’

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy threw his support behind Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) to become leader of the Democratic Party on Thursday.

“The House just passed a critical bill to keep Americans safe from illegal aliens by deporting all who are convicted of sex crimes. Kind of obvious, right? But how did most Democrats react?” questioned Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “A whopping 145 House Democrats voted against this common sense legislation.”

Introducing McCarthy to her show, Ingraham asked, “How do you expect Senate Democrats to handle this, given the reaction among the public to what went down in the House, to that Democrat opposition?”

“I think the Democrats in the Senate are gonna vote for it,” replied McCarthy. “Listen to Fetterman. I mean, Fetterman should be the leader of the Democratic Party if they ever want to win the majority again.”

Ingraham shot back, “Don’t give him any ideas.”

“But they are so out of touch,” continued McCarthy. “I would expect the Democrats to talk like this a year ago, before the election. Have they not heard what the voters have said? Remember, this isn’t throw everyone out who came here illegally who broke the law… You have to sexually assault somebody and they still want to protect.”

Last week, Fetterman expressed support for the deportation of illegal migrants who commit crimes on U.S. soil.

“If you’re here illegally and you’re committing crimes and those things, I don’t know why anybody thinks that it’s controversial that they all need to go,” he told Fox News, before arguing that Democratic opposition to such stances was “the reason why we lost.”

President-elect Donald Trump praised Fetterman this month after meeting with the Senate Democrat at Mar-a-Lago.

“He’s a commonsense person. He’s not liberal or conservative. He’s just a commonsense person, which is beautiful,” said Trump. “He really was impressive, and I’m glad I got to speak to him. And he loves Pennsylvania, and he loves our country.”

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