It looks like the House Speaker Hopeful is telling the Big Money Boyz that he can handle Trump so everyone can keep sending in the big bucks:
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has regaled top donors at private events in recent months with a behind-the-scenes story about a fight he says he had with former president Donald Trump.
The 2020 clash began when Trump broke an agreement with McCarthy to consult before making endorsements in House races and took sides in a North Carolina primary contest. The California Republican responded by calling up Trump with curse-laden fury, he has told donors. When Trump’s candidate lost in the primary to McCarthy’s pick, Madison Cawthorn, Trump acknowledged that he had been wrong and, McCarthy argues, he gained respect for his advice.
The point of McCarthy’s tale is that he knows how to work with Trump in this strange moment in Republican politics, when the former president both holds the keys to the party’s most animated voters and threatens to alienate the moderates the GOP needs to win control of Congress, according to a person who has witnessed the pitches and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
With only a handful of seats needed for Republicans to win control of the House next year — and the likely prospect of McCarthy becoming speaker — he has been selling himself as a singular leader of the party, able to stand up to the unpredictable former president without breaking their bond.
“I stay close to him. We have a good relationship. But he and his team don’t have a veto power on what we do,” McCarthy, 56, tells the donors, according to the witness. He even contrasts himself with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has distanced himself from Trump and earned his public scorn.
“I can do it,” McCarthy has assured his donors about the balancing act before him, according to the witness.
Gosh, I wonder what Trump thinks about all this? I’m sure his Kevin (he calls him “my Kevin”) hopes he doesn’t read this article.
Lol.
Remember, Kevin thinks he can handle Trump because he once noticed that Trump only likes the red starburst candies so he had an aide go out and buy a case and pull out the red ones and then sent them to Trump as a present. Again, lol.