Seth Meyers dug up some clips of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from last year that didn’t age too well.
The “Late Night” host noted that going into November’s midterms, Kevin McCarthy and his fellow Republicans hyped what they predicted would be a landslide victory for the party that would give them a large majority in the House.
That didn’t happen. And in the new Congress, with only a narrow GOP majority and a bloc of dissenters in his own party, McCarthy was forced to make concessions and endure 15 rounds of voting before he was able to assume the speakership.
“For at least a year, leading up to the midterms, McCarthy was incredibly cocky about it, even giving us specific numbers for how many seats Republicans could win,” Meyers said.
In one clip from April last year, McCarthy was asked on Fox News if perhaps Republicans were a little “overconfident this year.” McCarthy said they weren’t.
“There’s going to be a historic red wave or my name is not Klevin McCorthy,” Meyers quipped. “It’s never a good sign when someone says they’re not being overconfident. If a character says that in the movie, he’s about 10 minutes away from getting eaten by a T. rex.”
Watch below on “Late Night.”