The Labor Department's monthly jobs report, showing 273,000 new jobs added, are "beyond expectations" at a time when "Democrats are working against us," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday.
"You will have a big decision in November," the California Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "Do you want this economy to continue to move forward like 61% who say they're better off because of this president? Or you have a Joe Biden who wants to raise taxes, take you backward in the other direction?"
More states will be in play for this election than in 2016, and Democrats had an opportunity to win because of their majority in Congress, but have only achieved "investigations," said McCarthy.
However, those investigations have not included one on Biden's son, Hunter, who had a $50,000 a year contract with Ukraine energy giant Burisma he knew nothing about, said McCarthy, and he thinks Americans would want to investigate that.
McCarthy Friday also hit back at a federal judge's criticism of Attorney General William Barr for having a "lack of candor" about how he handled last year's report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, presiding on a lawsuit from watchdog group EPIC and BuzzFeed news, said he saw discrepancies between Barr's statements and the report.
"This judge is 100% wrong," said McCarthy. "The Mueller report did not have to go public. What did the AG do, he put it public by 98%. The only elements that he did not are methods, places that we should not know because we'd lose the ability to have that intelligence."
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