"It's time for all of our great Republican members of the House to vote for Kevin, close the deal and take victory." This is the message that Donald Trump launched this Wednesday morning to his classmates in an attempt to put an end to the ultra rebellion in the House that on Tuesday ruined, in three failed votes, the candidacy of Kevin McCarthy to the presidency of the parliamentary body.
In his call-up to his party's parliamentarians, which he launched as usual through his Truth Social social network, the former president referred to "really good conversations that took place last night and now," referring to the negotiations that McCarthy maintains with the twenty wayward representatives of his formation who, with their negative votes, ruined the voting for his candidacy on Tuesday.
The House of Representatives resumes its sessions this afternoon to host a new (or new) votes for his presidency.
McCarthy already had the endorsement of Trump as a candidate to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi in that position after the Republicans prevailed in the legislative elections on November 8, which they achieved by only nine seats ahead of Joe's party. Biden and without accompanying that minimal victory with a victory in the Senate.
The former Republican president, little fond of associating with losers after the failure of the main candidates in the midterm elections whom he had supported, took a few hours to come to McCarthy's defense after his triple failure in the elections for president of the America's largest parliamentary institution. It is not strange, because some of the rebels are his supporters, although the candidate is also his protégé.
"Republicans: Don't turn a big win into a giant, embarrassing loss. It's time to celebrate, you deserve it. Kevin McCarthy will do well; maybe even do a great job," Trump added. And he also wrote, very much in his rude and lacking line: "Watch the very crazy Nancy Pelosi fly back home to a broken California."
Support for the party's official candidate seems right now, in the absence of knowing the internal negotiations in the Republican group of the Lower House, a certain risk bet for a political figure in such low hours as those that the ex-president is going through.
Trump hasn't won for disappointment since his team lost at midterm. A week later, he announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections without almost anyone in the party giving him the wave, as he expected. Immediately, the Department of Justice and the Attorney General's Office appointed a special lawyer who is studying to prosecute him sooner rather than later for the assault on the capitol and for hiding secret documents in his Mar-A-Lago mansion. And, shortly after, the now extinct investigative commission of that insurrection in the House of Representatives itself presented its devastating final report, with new evidence of Trump's involvement in that attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
The former president better win this bet.
President Joe Biden also spoke about the crisis, in his case to denounce the "embarrassing" spectacle that the Republicans are giving and that "it does not look good for the country."
For this reason, the head of the Government asked the opposition party to solve the election of the president of the Chamber once and for all. "I hope they get their act together," he said. Because "the rest of the world is watching" the chaotic scenes in Congress, he added. And, without wanting to weigh in on any possible path of solution or on which candidate could prevail, he insisted: "I think it's really embarrassing that it's taking so long." But "it's not my problem," he said.
