{"id":10910,"date":"2023-10-31T01:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/mccarthy-gop-primary-challenger-praises-eight-republicans-who-ousted-him-in-campaign-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T01:52:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:52:48","slug":"mccarthy-gop-primary-challenger-praises-eight-republicans-who-ousted-him-in-campaign-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/mccarthy-gop-primary-challenger-praises-eight-republicans-who-ousted-him-in-campaign-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy GOP primary challenger praises eight Republicans who ousted him in campaign launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., attracted a GOP primary challenger on Monday, nearly four weeks after McCarthy was removed from the House of Representatives\u2019 top job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In his campaign launch statement, small business owner David Giglio praised the eight House Republicans who joined every Democrat in voting to oust McCarthy as \u2018courageous\u2019 while touting himself as an \u2018America First Republican.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kevin McCarthy has failed the American people. I am excited to announce my campaign to defeat Kevin McCarthy in California\u2019s 20th Congressional District. After years of being sold out to special interests, the people of the Central Valley deserve an America First Republican fighting for them in Washington and working alongside President Donald Trump to WAGE WAR against the corrupt uniparty!\u2019 Giglio\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker by 8 courageous members of his party for failing to keep to his promises and capitulating to Joe Biden and the radical Democrats. Kevin McCarthy must be defeated.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s challenging McCarthy for California\u2019s 20th Congressional District, a safe Republican district covering part of the Golden State\u2019s Central Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giglio runs a business buying and selling sports cards and memorabilia, according to his campaign site.<\/p>\n<p>But despite being deposed from leadership, McCarthy is a tough rival to beat. The Bakersfield Republican is a fundraising juggernaut for the GOP, raising $78 million in the first nine months of 2023 alone.<\/p>\n<p>He has also sailed to victory in every election since he first won his House seat in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s re-election campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>California uses a \u2018jungle primary\u2019 system in most of its elections. Rather than have separate Republican and Democratic primary races, all candidates compete at once with the top two vote-getters advancing to a general election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Elizabeth Elkind is a reporter for Fox News Digital focused on Congress as well as the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and politics. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., attracted a GOP primary challenger on Monday, nearly four weeks after McCarthy was removed from the House of Representatives\u2019 top job. In his campaign launch statement, small business owner David Giglio praised the eight House Republicans who joined every Democrat in voting to oust McCarthy as \u2018courageous\u2019 while touting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}