House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted Wednesday that the Republicans could win more than 60 seats in the 2022 midterm elections, with such an outcome rivaling the Tea Party electoral wave of 2010.
McCarthy made the suggestion in response to sweeping Republican victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, with the party increasingly competitive with the crucial constituency of suburban white voters it had struggled to maintain in the past two federal elections.
“It’ll be more than 70 [Democratic seats] that will be competitive. There’s many that are going to lose their races based upon walking off a cliff from Nancy Pelosi pushing them,” he continued. “She may not care if she lose. She lost 63 the last time she was Speaker moving policy that the country didn’t care for.“
