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...They have already homed in on his anti-gay marriage views, advocacy in favour of banning abortions, his support for overturning Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and former president Donald Trump’s new...
...With enemies like Gaetz, McConnell must surely have some good points. To be fair, he does have one or two....
...Gaetz told the House he was introducing a resolution “declaring the office of Speaker of the House of the Representatives to be vacant”....
...They included former candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, among others....
...Mike Johnson, a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending weeks of congressional paralysis and signalling a sharp tack to the right for Republicans in the...
...Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican congressman who backed Trump over DeSantis months ago, summed up the mood towards DeSantis in the Trump camp at a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday: “All I can say is: Welcome...
...We decided that wasn’t where we were going to go,” said Jordan, an Ohio congressman and staunch Donald Trump ally....
...The exception is Donald Trump....
...In the end, seven Republicans joined Gaetz and all of the House Democrats present in voting McCarthy out....
...His comments echoed Donald Trump, the former president and current frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination....
...Gaetz is now one of the fiercest critics of Kevin McCarthy, who he derided recently as “McFailure” while lashing out at the Speaker for “lying like a dead dog”....
...Jim Jordan, founding member of the rightwing House Freedom Caucus and loyal ally of former US president Donald Trump, was the first Republican lawmaker to enter the race to be McCarthy’s successor....
...Gaetz called a vote of no confidence by introducing a rarely used procedural tool called a “motion to vacate”....
...Mike Johnson, a little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana and loyal ally of Donald Trump, was ultimately elected with the unanimous support of House Republicans as the new Speaker....
...The likes of Gaetz need to be faced down and marginalised, not compromised with....
...At an annual gathering of national security leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library over the weekend, the spectre of Donald Trump loomed large even as his name was barely mentioned publicly....
...Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson was selected as the fourth Republican nominee for Speaker of the House in less than a month, after Donald Trump torpedoed Tom Emmer’s bid and compounded the chaos that...
...The second reason was that Johnson had Donald Trump’s enthusiastic support. Jordan enjoyed Trump’s backing too but that was before the fatigue set in....
...Earlier this month, the former president stayed on the sidelines of the battle for Speaker, as Matt Gaetz, the firebrand Republican congressman from Florida — and staunch Trump ally — led a rebellion to...
...This year, McCarthy was pulled to the right by a faction of staunchly conservative members who are mostly allies of former president Donald Trump....
...The right wing of the House Republican conference has been emboldened by former president Donald Trump, who has cheered the possibility of a shutdown, writing on his Truth Social social media platform: “...
...Tom Emmer Matt Gaetz floated Emmer, the 62-year-old Republican congressman from Minnesota, as a possible successor to McCarthy even before the Speaker was ousted....
...Last Tuesday, the House voted to remove McCarthy as Speaker, after Florida congressman Matt Gaetz led a rebellion of eight members to unseat McCarthy from the Speakership....
...If McCarthy were to be toppled by Gaetz’s initiative, however, it could sow further confusion. “If McCarthy goes down, who’s taking the job?...
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