Dear MoveOn member,
In a bombshell report last Thursday, The New York Times revealed that, in the days following the January 6 Capitol insurrection, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said he would push Donald Trump to immediately resign.1
McCarthy privately called Trump's actions "atrocious and totally wrong" and said, "I've had it with this guy. What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it."2
The article caused a fury on Capitol Hill, and McCarthy issued a press statement within hours flatly denying the reporting as "totally false and wrong" and blaming the media for being "obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda."3
Then, on Thursday night, Rachel Maddow released the audio from McCarthy's conversations on her nightly show.4 He was caught red-handed.
Andra, this is the man who will become speaker of the House after the midterm elections unless we stop Republicans from taking over Congress in November.
And that's why MoveOn is about to launch its biggest midterm campaign ever. We need to fight back, pushing Democrats to deliver on their promises, inspiring and motivating voters, and turning out voters to the polls in November. We've spent months developing and testing innovative new strategies to reach, engage, and turn out voters—and we're getting ready to publicly launch this plan in just a couple of weeks.
But to run this campaign at the scale we need to stop Republicans from taking over Congress, we need your help now. Will you chip in $3 now to help stop Kevin McCarthy and the GOP from taking over Congress in November?
On January 10, 2021, Kevin McCarthy told other House leaders that he intended to say the following to Trump: "I think this [impeachment] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign."5
Of course, within weeks—on January 27—McCarthy traveled to Mar-a-Lago Club, pledged his support for Trump, and the two posed for a photo, which was a lifeline for Trump at perhaps his weakest political moment.6 It was total surrender.
The New York Times report last week also revealed that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told allies in the days after the insurrection, "The Democrats are going to take care of the [S.O.B.] for us. If this isn't impeachable, I don't know what is."7
McConnell, of course, voted against impeaching Trump and, by February 2021, said he would "absolutely" support Trump if the former president were to win the Republican nomination in 2024.8
On Sunday, Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN and called Kevin McCarthy "a liar and a traitor."9 She said, "And that is really the illness that pervades the Republican leadership right now, that they say one thing to the American public and something else in private."
It's terrifying, really, to think what Trump stooges Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell would do in 2024. Trump organized a violent coup attempt on January 6, and he still remains the de facto leader of the Republican Party. In fact, his grip on the GOP is stronger than ever.
If we lose this November, it truly could be the last free and fair election we ever see in this country. The stakes could not be higher. The future of American democracy is on the line.
If Republicans win control of the House and Senate, they have already said that they will block any Supreme Court nomination from President Biden. Confirmations to lower courts and key administration positions will come to a screeching halt as well.
We can forget about passing any kind of meaningful legislation to deal with climate change, wealth inequality, or voting rights. And people of color and other marginalized communities will suffer most as a result.
In 2020, MoveOn helped innovate and implement one of the biggest breakthroughs in voter turnout in years. By organizing voters to get in touch with three friends to help them register and remind them to vote on Election Day, we were able to have a bigger impact than door-to-door canvassing, phone calling, or TV ads.
In fact, scientific testing found that in certain circumstances, programs like ours could increase voter turnout by a stunning 8 percentage points over the control group. In the very closest elections, that kind of boost is more than enough to be decisive.10
This year, we'll build on that success—but with a whole new set of innovations to make sure people vote given all of the new GOP voter suppression laws now in place.
We can't tell you everything about what we have planned, both because we're still doing some fine-tuning and because we don't want to tip our hand and give away our advantage. However, we can tell you that a key to our latest innovations is the proliferation of Zoom and video conferencing during the pandemic, which has created training and team-building opportunities we never dreamed of in the past.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chris, Nakia, Rahna, Madeleine, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "'I've Had It With This Guy': G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6," The New York Times, April 22, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161924?t=5&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
2. Ibid.
3. "Kevin McCarthy and the intoxication of power," The Washington Post, April 23, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161925?t=7&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
4. "Audio contradicts McCarthy's denial that he said he would recommend that Trump resign," "The Rachel Maddow Show," April 21, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161926?t=9&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
5. "'I've Had It With This Guy': G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6," The New York Times, April 22, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161924?t=11&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
6. "Kevin McCarthy and the intoxication of power," The Washington Post, April 23, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161925?t=13&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
7. "'I've Had It With This Guy': G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6," The New York Times, April 22, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161924?t=15&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
8. Ibid.
9. "Elizabeth Warren Torches Kevin McCarthy as 'a Liar and a Traitor,'" Rolling Stone, April 24, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/161927?t=17&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
10. "Hi, There. Want to Triple Voter Turnout?" The New York Times, September 19, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/144839?t=19&akid=322005%2E53570607%2EHALxFg
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