Former Trump adviser: McCarthy ‘wrong’ for saying 2020 election over

A former Trump adviser on Wednesday evening attacked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for saying the 2020 presidential election is over. 

“We can not simply move on as Frank Luntz’s roommate, House Leader McCarthy wants us to,”  Steve Cortes said on the Newsmax show “Cortes & Pellegrino,” Mediaite reported. McCarthy rented a room from the GOP pollster during the pandemic.

Cortes was peddling unfounded election fraud claims in Georgia on the show when he played a clip from Wednesday in which McCarthy said people are past the election fraud conspiracy theories. 

“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” McCarthy said. “I think that is all over with. We’re sitting here with the president today.”

“Wrong,” Cortes said.

Former President Trump and many of his loyal allies have continued to push the false claim that Trump won the 2020 election. President Biden has been in office for nearly four months.

Cortes also went after the Supreme Court and called the justices “cowardly” for not taking up a case challenging 2020 election results.

Cortes also addressed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was just voted out of leadership in the House for speaking against election fraud conspiracy theories, addressing her use of the phrase “Big Lie” to describe Trump’s rhetoric and saying the “Big Lie” was the election itself.

“Let’s figure out why she and her new besties in the corporate media … why do they cling constantly to this notion that last November’s vote is the ‘Big Lie’ because that is actually the real ‘Big Lie,’ ” Cortes said. “Since when it is unpatriotic to question government actions or results?”