Former President Donald Trump, who had endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker, declined to say whether he still supports his longtime ally after the California Republican failed to clinch the job in three consecutive votes.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said when asked directly whether he was sticking with McCarthy, the GOP leader, in a brief phone conversation.
“I got everybody calling me wanting my support. But let’s see what happens and we’ll go — I got everybody calling, wanting my support,” he said. “That’s all I can say. But we’ll see what happens. We’ll see how it all works out.”Jan. 3, 2023Trump had repeatedly backed McCarthy for the job and urged his allies in the conservative Freedom Caucus to unite behind McCarthy as well.
"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,” Trump said of McCarthy in an interview last month with. “I’m friendly with a lot of those people who are against Kevin. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them. But I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game. You could end up with the worse situation.
Despite Trump's urging, nearly two dozen Republicans voted for Republicans other than McCarthy, leaving him far short of theTrump's distancing himself from McCarthy could prove fatal to his already imperiled bid for speaker. McCarthy was a top ally of Trump when he was in the White House, and the then-president repeatedly referred to him as"my Kevin."McCarthy briefly distanced himself from Trump after the Jan.
that Trump “bears responsibility for [the] attack on Congress by mob rioters” and “should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.”
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