After a bitter election race, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican US representative from California’s 23rd district, managed to win the position of Speaker of the US House of Representatives, after more than 16 years’ membership in the House .
McCarthy was born on January 26, 1965 in Bakersfield, California, where he still lives with his wife, Judy, and two children, Connor and Megan.
McCarthy is the youngest of three children of a stay-at-home mother and a father who worked as an assistant fire chief.
The grandson of a rancher, McCarthy grew up in a working-class family in the College Heights neighborhood of Bakersfield, a large city in South Central California dominated by agriculture.
The McCarthy family has lived in Kern County (where Bakersfield is located) for four generations.
In October 1984, when he was 20, he bought a lottery ticket and won $5,000, which he said was the first step on his path to entrepreneurship.
At the age of 21, he started his own small business “Kevin Oz Deli”, a small fast food shop.
My uncle found the old menu from my deli, Kevin O’s Deli today! Check it out! Brings back lots of memories. pic.twitter.com/MC9vuwksQ5
— Kevin McCarthy (@kevinomccarthy) 12 July 2013
The presentation inside describes it its official site He told the House of Representatives that he worked hard for years, managing to hire many workers in his small restaurant, before moving into public service and selling his successful project.
At age 21, he sold his business to get into college, attending graduate school at California State University. While there, he internshipd with Congressman Bill Thomas and later became a Fellow. of Thomas’ Congressman’s staff.
In 2000, he won his first general election as district governor of Kern and then, in 2002, was elected to represent District 32 in the California State Assembly.
As a freshman legislator, he was unanimously selected by his fellow Republicans to serve as the Republican leader in the assembly, becoming the first freshman and first Kern County legislator to hold such an important position in the California legislature.
Kevin worked with his Assembly and Senate colleagues to reduce California’s budget deficit, reform the state’s worker compensation system, and improve California’s business climate to create more opportunities for California workers and businesses .
He was first elected to Congress in 2006 and was elected Republican leader in the House of Representatives in 2014.
McCarthy’s relationship with former President Donald Trump was strained following the storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Meanwhile, McCarthy said from the floor, “The president is responsible for Wednesday’s attack on Congress,” according to the website.British“.
His relationship further deteriorated when a New York Times report revealed that, in the aftermath of the attack, McCarthy had told fellow Republicans he intended to advise the president to step down.
Despite their party’s disappointing performance in the midterm elections, the Republican party bloc voted for McCarthy as leader of the Republicans on Nov. 15, despite fierce competition from his right-wing rival Andy Biggs of Arizona, before he finally managed to assume the presidency of the House of Representatives yesterday, Friday, after a historic electoral race. .
