If this doesn’t rally
the Democratic Party around the table nothing else will?
The
'Donald Trump for speaker' idea won't die
November
19, 2021 | by Chris Cillizza and Lauren Dezenski
If Republicans regain
the House majority in 2022, they should install the former President as speaker
in January 2023.
Earlier
this week in an interview with onetime Trump White House political guru Steve
Bannon, Mark Meadows said aloud what
lots of Trump-y types have been thinking
for a while.
Meadows,
who served as Trump's White House chief of staff, said that if Republicans regain the House majority in 2022, they
should install the former President as speaker in January 2023.
"I would love to
see the gavel go from (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi to Donald Trump," Meadows told Bannon. "You talk about melting down -- people
would go crazy."
Getting the pitcher my
friends and neighbors?
“The republicans in
congress do not care about you your family or even the country they only care
about themselves”!
To be clear: It would still be a massive long shot for Trump to wind
up as speaker. There's a reason that the
House has never picked someone outside of its ranks to serve as its leader.
My point is that as
you can see now this is what is keeping them up all night thinking!
Remember; thinking
about anything other than them is a strange concept!
Plus,
Trump
quite clearly has designs on running for president in 2024 -- and it's hard to
see how a pit stop as speaker of the House furthers that cause.
Of
course, because we are talking about
Trump here, ruling any idea out -- no matter how wild and wacky -- is a
fool's errand.
The Point:
There's enough unhappiness with McCarthy among the Trump wing of
the party that this idea will keep coming up. Whether the former President
actually pursues it is a different question.
-- Chris
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