Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) mentioned Democrats ought to observe the lead of Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has brazenly supported among the GOP rhetoric on immigration.
“Listen to Fetterman. I mean, Fetterman should be the leader of the Democratic Party if they ever want to win the majority again,” McCarthy mentioned Thursday night in an interview with Fox Information’s Laura Ingraham.
His feedback got here a day after the Home handed Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) invoice supporting the deportation of unlawful immigrants convicted of intercourse crimes or home violence. Greater than 60 Democrats voted in favor of the measure however as a collective, McCarthy mentioned the celebration continues to be “out of touch.”
The California Republican, who retired from Congress in 2023 after being ousted as Speaker, criticized those that spoke out towards the invoice.
“I’d count on the Democrats to speak like this a yr in the past, earlier than the election. Have they not heard what the voters have mentioned?” he continued. “Keep in mind, this isn’t throw everybody out who got here right here illegally who broke the legislation… It’s important to sexually assault any individual, and so they nonetheless need to shield [them].”
Regardless of the pushback, the Home earlier this month handed laws named after the slain Georgia scholar Laken Riley that may require detention of migrants arrested for theft. The invoice, set to be voted on within the Senate Friday, honors the girl killed by a Venezuelan migrant who was arrested for shoplifting forward of the assault and paroled within the U.S.
Fetterman has lately spoken in favor of deporting unlawful immigrants who commit crimes.
“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,” Fetterman mentioned in a separate Fox Information interview.
He mentioned Democrats who don’t help comparable approaches to immigration have been “the reason why we lost.”
The Pennsylvania senator has been seemingly heat to President-elect Trump’s Cupboard picks, suggesting he might help the confirmations of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as secretary of state, Pete Hegseth as Protection secretary and Kash Patel to steer the FBI.
Fetterman lately met with Trump, who has threatened mass deportations for unlawful immigrants, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a gathering the president-elect known as “fascinating.”
