House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) isn't sure that former President Donald Trump is the most electable Republican running for president -- and that has many Trump allies fuming.
In interviews with CNN, Trump aides blasted McCarthy for saying on CNBC that "I don’t know that answer" about whether Trump is "the strongest to win the election" in 2024.
While this was not exactly a strong condemnation of the former president, it was apparently enough to trigger outrage from people within his orbit.
"I’ve been fielding calls on this since it happened,” one Trump ally told CNN. “People are not happy. What was he thinking?”
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New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan has heard similar rumblings from his sources and he commented on Twitter after McCarthy's CNBC interview that "this quote from McCarthy is not going down well in Trump world."
Polls at the moment show Trump with a commanding lead in the 2024 Republican primary, despite the fact that he was impeached twice during his first term, he currently faces felony indictments for hush money payments to an adult film star and for stashing top-secret government documents at his private resort, and he faces the prospects of further indictments for his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
