As the House undergoes an increasingly absurd series of votes in which Republicans are failing, time and again, to nominate a new speaker of the House, Donald Trump has lost with only one vote from Matt Gaetz.
, with votes from the GOP’s other rebels against McCarthy for Representatives Byron Donalds and Kevin Hern .
Though the speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of the House, Trump had no chance of becoming speaker, which Gaetz likely knows, nor does he want the job.to capitulate to McCarthy, or perhaps open contempt toward McCarthy and his repeated attempts to win the speakership, despite McCarthy’s many concessions to the far right in the process.
It’s possible that Gaetz harbors a real desire to make Trump speaker of the House, which some of his allies have suggested; in an interview withon Wednesday night, Rep. Lauren Boebert brought up the idea amid a strange back and forth with’s Sean Hannity. “There are certainly names that are being floated around and, hey, maybe I should nominate President Donald J. Trump tomorrow,”
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