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Adam Kinzinger: “I think what happened is, you know, a few weeks after the insurrection, frankly, Kevin McCarthy went down to Mar-a-Lago.…”

On the recordJune 1, 2021
I think what happened is, you know, a few weeks after the insurrection, frankly, Kevin McCarthy went down to Mar-a-Lago. He took the paddles, the political paddles, and he resurrected Donald Trump's politics back to life.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Kinzinger critiques Kevin McCarthy for reviving Trump's political influence after the January 6 insurrection.

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