Trump DECLINES to say whether he will continue backing Kevin McCarthy for Speaker

Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether he would continue to endorse Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s House presidential bid after the California Republican fell short three times on Tuesday.

‘We’ll see what happens,’ Trump told NBC News during a brief telephone conversation.

The former 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 win his endorsement.

“Everyone called me asking for my support,” Trump told the network. ‘But let’s see what happens and we’ll leave. I have everyone calling, wanting my support. This is all I can say. But we’ll see what happens. We’ll see how it all works.

The House of Representatives voted three times Tuesday for the Speaker of the House and GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy fell short three times because of a group of ‘Never Kevin’ lawmakers in his caucus, who say they are closer to Trump than McCarthy.

Later Tuesday night, the former president said the real culprits behind the Republican “turmoil” were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other “RINO allies.” He also used a racist name for McConnell’s wife, former Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Later Tuesday night, Trump focused on the other chamber of Congress, saying the real culprits behind the Republican “turbulence” 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 resigned over the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill, referring to her as ‘Coco Chow’ and saying she is a ‘sellout to China’. .

He said McConnell, Chao and other moderate Republicans “make it difficult for everyone else by constantly appealing to hopeless Joe Biden and the Democrats.”

‘The $1.7 trillion Green New Deal “booster” that McConnell and RINOS delivered to the Democrats last week was a real disappointment and embarrassment to the Republicans!’ Trump also said, referring to the government funding bill that Biden signed while on vacation last week in St. Croix.

McCarthy’s bid for president was scuttled Tuesday, the day the new Congress opened, by a handful of rogue Republicans who say they represent the MAGA movement more than the California Republican, who has been the leader of the Republican Party in the Chamber since 2019.

Now that they enter the majority, the Republican rebels want an alternative to McCarthy, with 20 members deciding on Rep. Jim Jordan at the end of the day.

The House went into recess around 5:30 p.m. until noon Wednesday, giving Republicans night and morning to settle their business.

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, one of the most prominent members of Never Kevins, still maintained McCarthy’s criticism of Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill against him.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to colleagues amid Tuesday’s drama as a group of rogue Republicans derailed the presidential vote for the California Republican, who has been the leader of the House Republican Party of Representatives 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 did the same itself, so the bill was never fully passed.

By the end of the day, 20 rogue Republicans had decided to endorse Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who will take over as chairman 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 supports him right now, but that’s not the truth,” Boebert told Newsmax. “I sat on the floor of the house directly behind McCarthy almost two years ago and listened to a speech in which he wanted to censure President Trump.”

“Anytime it’s convenient for him or the pressure is too much, he seems to salute President Trump,” he said of McCarthy.

Boebert said the Republican rebels had “been in communication” with Trump.

“I just don’t think I got this quite right,” he said of Trump’s endorsement of McCarthy at the time.

He also said that Trump had pressured McCarthy to cut a deal with his band of critics.

Boebert et. Alabama. they want only one member to be allowed to bring a motion to overturn, which means that a member of a conference can call a vote to remove McCarthy from the presidency at any time.