Posted on 12/17/2022 1:53:33 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Former President Donald Trump has backed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his bid for speaker while saying that McCarthy’s opponents should fall in line.
“I support McCarthy,” Trump told Breitbart News on Dec. 15.
“Look, I think this: Kevin has worked very hard,” Trump added. “He is just—it’s been exhausting. If you think, he’s been all over. I think he deserves the shot. Hopefully, he’s going to be very strong and going to be very good and he’s going to do what everybody wants.”
McCarthy, 57, has been in the House GOP leadership since 2009, during his second term in office. But he has never been speaker.
McCarthy was in the running to succeed then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in 2015 but abruptly dropped out before the conference vote. Then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) ended up succeeding Boehner.
Both Boehner and Ryan have since left Congress and McCarthy won the House Republican nomination in November. The speaker, though, must also receive the most votes in a session with members of both parties, and Republicans will only hold a slim majority when the new Congress is sworn in shortly after the New Year.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), 64, whom McCarthy defeated in the conference vote, has said he would be challenging McCarthy again in the upcoming session. At least four other members, including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), have publicly opposed McCarthy and said they will not or likely will not vote for him.
“Rep. Norman sincerely likes Rep. McCarthy on a personal level,” a spokesman for Norman told The Epoch Times. “However, Rep. Norman is extremely concerned with the direction of this country, particularly with respect to the federal government’s out-of-control spending and outrageous national debt.”
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Trump is doing a pretty good job of stopping Trump all by himself!
i think trump is out of line...can’t he just stand on the sidelines....quietly....his endorsement means “0”.
What are the odds Kevin returns the favor in a year?
You are correct, as much as I hate it.
Still a poor judge of people’s character.
The party is so unprincipled, weak and feckless it doesn’t matter who they choose for Speaker. The GOP always finds a way to screw things up and produce more disappointment. A useless party.
We can always count on Trump to pick the good ones. /sarc
Yep
Thanks, Trump.
This is why we lose.
The McCarthy loyalists can’t grasp the concept that if McCarthy is unable to get the votes, someone else will agree to run for the speaker’s job. They’re not going to let the Democrats choose the next speaker.
The priority right now should be to get Kevin McCarthy to remove himself from consideration so that someone else can run.
Agree. Trump is acting like a child.
Trump also endorsed Mitt Romney, who then proceeded to stab Trump in the back, over and over again.
We saw how McCarthy treated Trump during the weeks before J6. A total backstabber. Yet here we are, with Trump wanting more of the same.
Did McCrooked ever return his FTX dirty money?
He’s a Former President they do not “stay on the sidelines”
Saying his endorsement “means nothing” is ridiculous.
Your disdain for Trump clouds your reasoning.
“What are the odds Kevin returns the favor in a year?”
Almost zero!
Nooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooooo
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Yep.
We agree on this.
Very disappointed to hear this, what the hell does it matter they are all the same, back stabbing,lying and in it for the money, no honor whatsoever.
Trump just couldn’t resist saying it so when he gets bush wacked again by the rat McCarthy he can’t say he didn’t ask for it.
Total irony in Trump supporting the biggest swamp monster in the Republican Party as the head of the very swamp he swore to drain.
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