Kevin McCarthy would have WALKED from California to visit Trump in Florida, if Trump had demanded it.
I’ll tell you something else that will be remembered as a major turning point in the 2021 political landscape: that anti-Cheney rally in Wyoming a few days ago. Think of the optics there. You had Matt Gaetz, a prominent House member from Florida, traveling two thousand miles away to Wyoming ... to tell another House member who holds a leadership post IN THE SAME PARTY to get the hell out of office and go away.
I am sure that sentiment is multiplied millions of times over among Trump’s supporters. These GOP leaders aren’t afraid of Trump starting a third party. They fully recognize that Trump would be starting a SECOND party ... and the Republican Party would be finished as a political force.
Kevin McCarthy would have WALKED from California to visit Trump in Florida, if Trump had demanded it.
That is all political theater. McCarthy pretending he cares what Trump says. Trump pretending he has allies in the swamp McCarthy could remove Cheney. Is he? Nope. The proof is in the pudding.