Posted on 01/05/2023 6:38:08 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Maybe one of the below reasons is why this is strategic...or not. What do you think?
1. Trump knows something we don’t.
2. Trump wants to be able to keep his stronghold on the Republican party and thinks this is the way to do it.
3. Trump realizes that McCarthy is the best chance of getting something in the GOP agenda accomplished. Trump made agenda deals with McCarthy.
4. Reverse psychology? A smoke screen. A bait and switch to keep the RINOS and/or Dems on their toes.
5. Trump's not really endorsing McCarthy but spotlighting him as a criminal. Maybe Trump endorsed the people he did to bring attention to them. This is a way to drain the swamp.
6. Trump knows McCarthy is the only one capable of getting the votes.
7. McCarthy is the lesser of the evils in the swamp.
8. Trump is “playing the game", just like Jordan, who voted for McCarthy on the first and second rounds of voting.
9. McCarthy pledged to help Trump get rid of the Republicans that went against him.
10.Party unity.
11. Trump wants key Republicans to keep their committee positions.
12. McCarthy is likeable, a team player, and will get things done.
13. Trump stands by his choice. It’s loyalty.
14. It's optics so that Trump can't be blamed for whatever transpires.
15. Trump told McCarthy, "I will endorse you if you don’t get in my way running for President."
16. When Jim Jordan said no thanks, that narrowed the field considerably.
17. Only McCarthy wants the job.
18. Trump wants a Republican as speaker.
19. GOPe doesn't want Kevin.
Trump doesn't have any oil left to leak. 24/7/365 log splitting down to kindling, that pretty much is all there is left, nothing to sustain any kind of fire.
he does phone town halls but honestly, the “public” either loves him to death or they are heavily screened. I never have been able to get through to him.
You are correct. President Trump is a walking Rorschach test.
Nope.
What if Trump and McCarthy have worked out to impeach Biden/Harris? Knowing whoever was Speaker would ascend to President? And McCarthy was the most agreeable to the Senate to see the impeachment to completion? Then Trump takes the Presidency in 2024 by attacking McCarthy?
That’s an interesting theory. I like it actually. Lol.
Yeah...he either gets it 110% right, or 110% wrong. Weird!
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