The leader of the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, should resign, demand Democrats.
Previously, he joked about the Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
Washington, DC - Little to nothing unites Democrats and Republicans in the United States.
The polarization of society in the country is repeatedly brought up as an example of deterrence.
Now there was a verbal derailment from a senior Republican.
Resignation calls are loud.
At the center of the scandal is the leader of the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.
Place of the event: a donation dinner in the US state of Tennessee.
In the USA, after the presidential elections in 2020, the election campaign is already back.
Because in the coming year the midterm elections are due.
These mid-term elections are about the US Congress, the legislature.
The entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senators are newly elected.
And McCarthy was reportedly very confident about these elections.
He wanted to regain a majority in the House of Representatives - the Democrats are currently dominating there.
Republican McCarthy jokes in bad taste about Democrat Pelosi at the event
At the event, he was also presented with an oversized version of the hammer, the hallmark of the President of the House of Representatives.
McCarthy then joked, according to journalists present: If the current majority leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, had to hand him the real hammer after the elections, it would take a lot of effort not to beat her with it.
This statement causes horror.
California Democratic MPs Ted Lieu and Eric Swalwell called on McCarthy on Sunday to apologize to Pelosi or to resign.
Pelosi's assistant chief of staff, Drew Hammill, also called on McCarthy to apologize for the "shameful remark".
"Violence against women is not a joke": horror among Democrats, according to McCarthy
"Violence against women is not a joke," wrote Democratic MP Teresa Leger Fernández from New Mexico on Twitter. "Statements like this led to violence and death in the US Capitol," tweeted the Michigan Democratic MP Debbie Dingell - reminding of the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. According to CNN, McCarthy and Pelosi recently got into each other with words more often than not about the processing of the incident.
(cibo / AFP)