McCARTHY: “Republicans won from Miami to New York to Minnesota to California. The only seat the Democrats won was an open seat, and then they claimed to have won a redistricting in North Carolina where Republicans didn’t even run. I heard the Speaker call it a mandate. It was a mandate against socialism. It was a mandate against defunding the police. It was a mandate against wasting a majority that the Democrats have done for the last Congress. While the Democrats praised socialism and abdicated to defund police, our members made a commitment to America, that they would restore the way of life, rebuild our economy and renew the American dream. We are eager and ready to show up for work, unlike the Democrats.”