{"id":536836,"date":"2023-01-07T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mccarthy-praises-trump-gaetz-for-helping-secure-speakership\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:12:57","slug":"mccarthy-praises-trump-gaetz-for-helping-secure-speakership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-praises-trump-gaetz-for-helping-secure-speakership\/","title":{"rendered":"#McCarthy praises Trump, Gaetz for helping secure Speakership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a352553acc47\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a352553acc47\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-praises-trump-gaetz-for-helping-secure-speakership\/#McCarthy_praises_Trump_Gaetz_for_helping_secure_Speakership\" >McCarthy praises Trump, Gaetz for helping secure Speakership<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCarthy_praises_Trump_Gaetz_for_helping_secure_Speakership\"><\/span>McCarthy praises Trump, Gaetz for helping secure Speakership<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mccarthykevin_0106232gn18_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) praised former President Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for pushing him over the finish line and helping him secure the gavel.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the two credit for convincing each of the six remaining Republican holdouts \u2014\u00a0of which Gaetz was one \u2014\u00a0to vote \u201cpresent\u201d on the 15th ballot, lowering the number of votes McCarthy needed to win.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning,\u201d McCarthy said of Trump after the House had adjourned for the weekend. He added the former president was \u201call in\u201d and \u201chelping get those final votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) confirmed Trump was on the other end of the line when she offered her phone to Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), one of McCarthy\u2019s detractors. A photo of her doing so was widely circulated during the votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d she said. \u201cMy favorite president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene declined to say what Trump\u2019s message was.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI think I\u2019m gonna keep that between us,\u201d she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was Gaetz\u2019s own \u201cpresent\u201d vote that set off chaos on the floor after the 14th ballot on Friday night. He was the last of the holdouts to cast a ballot and McCarthy needed his affirmative endorsement \u2014\u00a0not a \u201cpresent\u201d vote \u2014 to win.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Things <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared tense between Gaetz and other lawmakers \u2014 one had to be physically restrained \u2014\u00a0but McCarthy said it wasn\u2019t heated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became a tie and \u2026 Matt really wanted to get everybody there. Through all of this, people\u2019s emotions go up and down. At the end of the night, Matt got everybody there to the point that nobody voted against it. It actually helped unite,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz cast a \u201cpresent\u201d vote on the 15th ballot as well but so did all five other Republican holdouts.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy added he\u2019s \u201c1,000 percent\u201d confident he\u2019ll be Speaker for a full two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz, for his part, said he had switched from voting for other candidates to voting \u201cpresent\u201d because \u201cI ran out of things to ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he trusts McCarthy, Gaetz suggested he does not. \u201cFortunately, we have a rules agreement that isn\u2019t reliant on that,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for pushing him over the finish line and helping him secure the gavel. He gave the two credit for convincing each of the six remaining Republican holdouts \u2014\u00a0of which Gaetz was one \u2014\u00a0to vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mccarthykevin_0106232gn18_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,134661,80445,124783,134614,35813,52226,22409,134354,134345],"class_list":["post-536836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-energy-environment","tag-healthcare","tag-international","tag-judiciary","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-nexstar-media-wire-news","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}