Rep. Matt Gaetz has so much confidence in his assertion that Democrats will never aid Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the speakership that he threatened to resign if it came to pass.
he offered to resign from Congress Thursday night if a faction of Democrats were to vote with Republicans to allow a more “moderate” member of the GOP to take the gavel., Gaetz was asked about his interactions with Democrats on the House floor, many of which were caught on film and spurred curiosity online.
“My conversations with Democrats have largely been about making sure that they don’t leave the floor for dinner or fundraisers or whatnot. We need them to stay there so that the denominator in the equation on the election of the speaker allows us to have leverage to push for many of the things we’ve been discussing,” Gaetz said. If enough Democrats are absent for a vote, that could give McCarthy the majority he needs to become speaker.
Gaetz, who has opposed the California congressman in each of the 11 ballots cast thus far, was also asked about former President Donald Trump—who he has vociferously supported—“I love President Trump. I defended him a great deal in Congress,” Gaetz said, before criticizing some members of his administration. “But HR wasn’t always his strong suit. President Trump got us folks like Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr and Jim Mattis and Mark Esper — people who didn’t always advance an America-first policy.
“These 212 Democrats are going to vote for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries every single time. He is an historic candidate for them. They’re not going to cleave off,” Gaetz said.“If Democrats join up to elect a moderate Republican, I will resign from the House of Representatives. That is how certain I am. I can assure your viewers that won’t happen.”
Gaetz went on to say that if McCarthy should seek to make concessions to the far-right caucus in order to win, he would sentence himself to governing in a “straitjacket for the entirety of his term.”
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