San Francisco Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s becoming speaker of the House “should scare all Americans,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) warned Wednesday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”

“Well, that should scare all Americans. If Democrats were to win the majority, I believe Nancy would be speaker,” McCarthy, who is also running for the House speaker position, told Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer.

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The 78-year-old Pelosi, who became the first female speaker of the House in 2007, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview Monday, “People like to get started on what they think comes next.”

“That’s up to the caucus to decide. But I feel very comfortable with the support that I have in the caucus, and that I will be the speaker of the House,” she added.

Although Pelosi feels “comfortable” with her support, not all Democratic lawmakers and congressional nominees would support her bid for speaker. In addition, many liberal activists are calling for a younger, more progressive leader for the Democratic Party.

But if Democrats reclaim the majority and back Pelosi as speaker of the House, McCarthy warned that Americans won’t like the direction the country would veer.

“The reason why I think they would elect Nancy — because remember who is winning in the primaries. The socialists are, and that’s much more aligned with where Nancy is, in San Francisco, than where the rest of the nation is,” he said.

“That also means [Rep.] Maxine Waters [D-Calif.] would chair [the House Committee on] Financial Services, in charge of your banking and insurance across this nation. There are more and more individuals like that,” McCarthy noted.

Waters currently serves as the ranking member on the Financial Services Committee and has made headlines over her insistent calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. She began talking in earnest about impeaching Trump shortly after he took office because she disliked his policies, personality and rhetoric.

Waters told a group of people in Los Angeles over the weekend, “There’s a difference in how some of our leadership talk about how we should handle all of this.”

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“They say, ‘Maxine, please don’t say impeachment anymore,'” she added. “And when they say that, I say, ‘impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.'”

Waters also incurred bipartisan backlash after she repeatedly called for the public harassment of Trump administration officials this summer.

Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to mock Waters, writing, “Crazy Maxine Waters: ‘After we impeach Trump, we’ll go after Mike Pence. We’ll get him.’ @FoxNews Where are the Democrats coming from? The best Economy in the history of our country would totally collapse if they ever took control!”

“Is [impeachment] motivation for Democrats? And are you concerned about that call?” Hemmer asked McCarthy.

McCarthy replied, “I’m concerned about that call, but it shouldn’t be shocking to the American public. The Democrats have forced an impeachment vote already twice in this Congress session. They also have Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $120 million to get the Democrats to take the majority. They bragged that his list for impeachment is larger than the NRA [National Rifle Association] list in America.”

“Just think about that. Not only do they want to impeach the president — they want to abolish ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]” and “bankrupt Medicare,” McCarthy added. “Those are the three pillars of their agenda.”

But Hemmer confronted McCarthy by highlighting that it is GOP leaders’ jobs “to sell the message about the economy” to voters ahead of the November midterm elections.

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“I’m looking at these poll numbers, and I don’t know if that message is getting through. That’s going to be on folks like you,” Hemmer said, pointing to a spate of recent polls showing generic Democratic congressional candidates with double-digit leads over generic GOP candidates.

“Exactly. This economy is the best it’s ever been,” McCarthy admitted. “So remember where we were in the presidential race at this time, too? People thought [2016 Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary [Clinton] was going to win. So don’t underestimate where we are, because this election is going to be about results versus resistance. And you don’t want more resistance if they take the majority.”

“We can hang onto [the majority] just based upon what we’ve done on this economy,” McCarthy insisted. “There is an ability to change the course of where this country is going. I don’t think they want to revert back to Nancy Pelosi. Thank about what her agenda is — abolishing ICE, impeaching the president. It would not be a country that would get anything done.”