Politico | Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy hold ‘very good and cordial’ meeting focused on 2022 midterms
- High-profile discussion with the House minority leader signals the former president is unlikely to step aside from the Republican Party
- The party is hoping to regain the lower chamber of Congress after surprising gains in the 2020 election

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Benjamin Din on politico.com on January 28, 2021.
Former US president Donald Trump met House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday for what was later described as a “very good and cordial” meeting in which the top agenda item was taking back the House of Representatives in 2022.
Although many topics were discussed, according to a readout released by Trump’s Save America leadership PAC, the chief focus was on the coming midterm elections, when Republicans have a chance to take back the lower chamber after posting surprising gains in the 2020 elections.
Republicans picked up a net gain of at least 10 seats in a year when Democrats hoped anti-Trump furore would help them expand their majority.

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“They worked very well together in the last election and picked up at least 15 seats when most predicted it would be the opposite,” said the readout, which was released with a photo of the two men smiling in an ornately decorated room at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “They will do so again, and the work has already started.”