House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, one of the staunchest Trump allies in Congress, touted the president’s achievements at the Republican National Convention and said he must be reelected to block the socialist Democratic agenda.

“The choice before you could not be clearer,” the California Republican said, speaking from Washington, D.C., with the Capitol in the backdrop. “Forward in freedom or backward in socialism. Forward in prosperity, backward in poverty, forward in personal liberty or backwards in more government control.”