GOP will 'exact revenge' on Democrats for not bailing out McCarthy: DC insider
Republicans expected Democrats to bail them out of Rep. Matt Gaetz's challenge to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's leadership, and a congressional reporter expects them to exact revenge once the dust settles.
Democrats joined with eight GOP lawmakers to vote McCarthy out of a job Tuesday, and Punchbowl co-founder Jake Sherman told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Republicans blame them for the unprecedented ouster.
POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again?
"I'm not sure this is penetrating with Democrats," Sherman said. "I don't know a single candidate for speaker that would put funding for Ukraine on the floor. These kinds of issues – I understand Democrats had to do what they did. They consider this an internal party fight. Even the things to keep, like Ukraine funding, which we staked as a country and government a lot of our credibility on, that's not going to come to the floor, period, the end. I don't know anyone who would."
"Kicking people out of offices, just the, as you know, the small things that help this institution run, giving the minority a heading up on legislation, the things that the two parties do to make sure that the House of Representatives works, those things are done for now," Sherman added.
"Will they change? Of course, everything comes in a circle in this place, as I have seen for the last decade or more. Right now Republicans, the 200 and, whatever, 10 Republicans who voted for Kevin McCarthy, believe that the Democrats who called themselves institutionalists should have saved McCarthy. McCarthy had said he would put a Ukraine bill on the floor with strings. They blame them. The revenge Republicans are going to exact for this is going to jar a lot of people."
Watch the video below or at this link.
Leave a Comment
Related Post