Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday evening on Fox News that Democrats will continue to lose the more they fight against President Donald Trump, mocking the party’s new leadership choice.
The Democratic Party has appeared to struggle to unify its messaging to voters since Trump’s November win, with some blaming their policies while others argue the issue lies in how they deliver their ideas to voters. On “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham asked McCarthy about new reports that Democrat donors have either paused funding or are openly supporting Trump, which the former House Speaker called “unheard of.”
“It’s failing. What did they do? They doubled down. Tim Walz just lost for vice president. So where’d they go? They went and picked their new party chair from the land of Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar. If you look at the latest polling, more people identify as Republican than Democrat. This is unheard of,” McCarthy said.
“Trump had not only now won the popular vote, he’s now increased the size of the Republican Party. Even the Democratic donors now want to join the president,” McCarthy added. “Why? Because his policies. Everything the president is taking on has more than a 60% approval. The more the Democrats fight it, the more they will lose.”
The Democratic National Committee members gathered on Feb. 1 to finalize their new chair, electing Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin, who hails from the same state as failed former Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz. Following Martin’s win, the new chair told The New York Times that the problem he saw with the party wasn’t the policies themselves but rather a “messaging” and “brand problem.”
Some of the Democrats’ biggest donors have reportedly paused their funding due to the party’s struggle to present a unified vision and concerns over their retaliation against Trump since he entered office, according to The NYT. In the report, more than 50 donors, strategists and leaders of activist organizations told the outlet they are worried that the current cash flow decline is different this year compared to others.
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Despite CBS News’ latest poll showing Trump with his highest approval rating of 53% just weeks into office, Democrats have pushed back against the administration’s plans in both the media and through the courts on issues like immigration and cutting government waste. During his campaign, Trump vowed to cut wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, working with the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) Elon Musk to target issues throughout the federal government.
When asked about voter support for DOGE cuts, like those to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), McCarthy told Ingraham he was excited about Musk’s involvement in the administration.
“There are things we have never been able to find. I get so excited when I see what DOGE is doing. I mean, this is something that everyone has always talked about,” McCarthy said. “But the bureaucracy is so big that would stop you, right? There’s always a hurdle. This is the difference. President Trump will not stop, and Elon is brilliant.”
“That combination, when you watch the two of them, the will to get it done, and every time they fight and get the answers, it only awakens America more to the waste that’s going on. Every time the Democrats defend that waste, they will lose people,” McCarthy said.
Following Trump’s agreement to have DOGE upend the USAID and place it under the leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reports said billions of taxpayer dollars were wasted on international programs, some of which pushed left-wing policies, posed a high risk of landing in the Taliban’s hands and aided an organization linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In Trump’s most recent push, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Fox News Monday that the president directed Musk and DOGE to “identify fraud” within the Social Security Administration.
