Trump DECLINES to say whether he will continue backing Kevin McCarthy for Speaker after he lost three ballots: Ex-president claims he has been getting multiple calls for support – and will ‘see what happens’
- Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he would continue backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s House speakership bid Tuesday
- ‘We’ll see what happens,’ Trump told NBC News during a brief phone conversation after McCarthy came up short three times
- A band of rogue Republicans has tripped up McCarthy’s ascent to the speakership and have claimed to be more MAGA than the California Republican
Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he would continue backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s House speakership bid after the California Republican came up short three times on Tuesday.
‘We’ll see what happens,’ Trump told NBC News during a brief phone conversation.
The ex-president, who announced a 2024 White House run in mid-November, also boasted that he was receiving a flurry of calls from lawmakers hoping to gain his endorsement.
‘I got everybody calling me wanting my support,’ Trump told the network. ‘But let’s see what happens and we’ll go – I got everybody calling, wanting my support. That’s all I can say. But we’ll see what happens. We’ll see how it all works out.’
Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he would continue backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s House speakership bid after the California Republican came up short three times on Tuesday
The House of Representatives voted three times Tuesday for speaker of the House and GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy came up short thrice due to a group of ‘Never Kevin’ lawmakers in his caucus – who say they’re closer to Trump than McCarthy is
Later Tuesday night, the former president said those truly responsible for Republican ‘turmoil’ were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other ‘RINO allies.’ He also used a racist name for McConnell’s wife, Trump’s former Transportation secretary Elaine Chao
Later Tuesday night, Trump focused on the other Congressional chamber, saying those truly responsible for Republican ‘turmoil’ were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other ‘RINO allies.’
Trump also used a racist name for McConnell’s wife, his former Transportation secretary Elaine Chao, who quit over the January 6 Capitol attack, referring to her as ‘Coco Chow’ and saying she’s a ‘sellout to China.’
He said McConnell, Chao and other moderate Republicans ‘make it difficult for everyone else by constantly apitulating to Hopeless Joe Biden and the Democrats.’
‘The 1.7 Trillion Dollar Green New Deal “booster” that McConnell and the RINOS handed to the Dems last week was a real downer and embarrassment to Republicans!’ Trump also said, referring to the government funding bill that Biden signed while on vacation last week on St. Croix.
McCarthy’s speakership bid was tanked Tuesday – the opening day of the new Congress – by a handful of rogue Republicans who claim they represent the MAGA movement moreso than the California Republican, who’s been the leader of the House GOP since 2019.
Now as they enter the majority, the Republican rebels want an alternative to McCarthy, with 20 members settling on Rep. Jim Jordan by the end of the day.
The House went into recess around 5:30 p.m. until noon Wednesday, giving Republicans the night and morning to sort out their affairs.
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, one of the most prominent members of the Never Kevins, still held McCarthy’s criticism of Trump in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack against him.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy talks with colleagues amid Tuesday’s drama as a group of rogue Republicans derailed the speakership vote for the California Republican, who’s been the leader of the House GOP since 2019
HAPPIER TIMES: Then President Donald Trump (center) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (right) celebrate House Republicans rolling back Obamacare in May 2017. The Senate never followed suit and so the bill never fully passed
By the end of the day, 20 rogue Republicans had decided to back Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who is set to take over the chairmanship of the powerful House Judiciary Committee
‘Well, I wish I could say that Kevin McCarthy supported President Trump as much as we do and as much as President Trump is supporting him right now, but that’s just not the truth,’ Boebert said on Newsmax. ‘I sat on the house floor directly behind McCarthy almost two years ago and listened to a speech where he wanted to censure President Trump.’
‘Anytime that it’s convenient for him or the pressure is too much he seems to wave on President Trump,’ she said of McCarthy.
Boebert said that the Republican rebels had ‘been in communication’ with Trump.
‘I just don’t think he’s got this one quite right,’ she said of Trump’s then-support for McCarthy.
She also said that Trump had pushed McCarthy to take a deal with his band of critics.
Boebert et. al. want for a single member to be allowed to offer a motion to vacate, which means that one member of a conference can call a vote to oust McCarthy from the speakership at any time.
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