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    Amid turmoil over his comments on Trump, McCarthy warns of ‘attacks’ on Republicans

    by Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Apr 24, 2022 5 minutes
    Liz Cheney, R- Wyo., during a House Republican Leadership news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C. McCarthy, caught on tape saying he was considering asking then President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, addressed the California GOP convention Saturday, April 23, 2022.

    ANAHEIM, Calif. — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, under scrutiny for saying after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, alluded to the turmoil during a speech Saturday night at the California GOP convention.

    “As we go out to earn this majority, they’re going to attack you, they’re going to attack me. They’re going to attack President Trump,” he said, speaking of GOP aims to win control of the House in the November election.

    “They’re not just going to use the Democrats; they’re going to use the media as well,” he said. “We have to be united, and we have to be prepared for it.”

    The Bakersfield Republican’s speech before a friendly audience in Anaheim came after a tumultuous two days, starting with a New York Times report that he had told fellow

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