House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is teaming up with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) to travel to several states as the midterm election arrives in four days.
Gingrich, 79, is accompanying McCarthy for three days over the weekend to South Carolina, Florida, and the Texas-Mexico border, ending at Norfolk, Virginia, Punchbowl News reported.
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Punchbowl News first reported that Gingrich was seen with McCarthy at Rep. Vern Buchanan’s Longboat Key, Florida, home Saturday night.
The former speaker has been an unofficial adviser to McCarthy, spotted going in and out of McCarthy’s office in the Capitol and speaking to members at McCarthy’s request over the last few years.
Gingrich has been the target of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who announced that he, along with other officials under the administration of former President Donald Trump, could have valuable information for her investigation into whether crimes were committed in efforts to overturn the results after the 2020 election.
Willis is expecting their testimony after the midterm elections.
In the last 70 years, Gingrich is one of two GOP lawmakers that lead House Republicans from the minority to the majority. If Republicans take the House after the 2022 midterm elections, McCarthy is tapped to become the next Speaker of the House.
Republicans have been projected to win the majority in the House throughout most of the election season. The Senate, which originally leaned Democratic, now remains a toss-up.
Members of the Republican Party have stated that they may use impeachment threats as a way of policy negotiations if they take the majority, with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) saying last month that the Republicans are facing “a lot of pressure” to impeach President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, or Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Some members, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have run their campaigns on the idea.
As House minority leader, McCarthy has downplayed some of his GOP colleagues’ comments, stating that the goal is to put out and focus on the “commitment to America.”
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“I think the country doesn’t like impeachment used for political purposes at all,” McCarthy told Punchbowl News last week. “If anyone ever rises to that occasion, you have to, but I think the country wants to heal and … start to see the system that actually works.”
Gingrich served as House speaker from 1995 to 1999, overseeing the second-ever U.S. impeachment proceedings for former President Bill Clinton.
