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Kevin McCarthy
Trump comes out swinging for McCarthy, says defectors playing 'dangerous game'
by Juliegrace Brufke, Congressional Reporter | December 16, 2022 09:02 PM { 9.11 }

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Former President Donald Trump is coming out hard in support of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the next speaker of the House,
arguing that the California Republican’s defectors are playing a “dangerous game.”
Trump’s comments come as McCarthy faces an uphill battle in garnering the support needed within his conference to obtain the gavel,
with some of the former president’s closest allies leading the charge in the push to withhold the backing he needs to lock down the position
he has long vied for during his tenure in Congress.
Trump
— who previously endorsed McCarthy just ahead of Election Day, before the party fell short of the red wave it anticipated
— argued that conservatives could end up with a worse alternative,
taking aim at former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and likening his vocal critic, former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), to Winston Churchill by comparison.
“I think it’s a very dangerous game that’s being played. It’s a very dangerous game. Some bad things could happen.
Look, we had Boehner, and he was a strange person, but we ended up with Paul Ryan, who was 10 times worse.
Paul Ryan was an incompetent speaker,” Trump told Breitbart. “I think he goes down as the worst speaker in history.

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