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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 18, 2021, 02:08:39 pm
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Matt Schlapp: Republicans could ‘crown’ Trump as Speaker of the House if they win back majority
June 18, 2021 | Vivek Saxena
A top GOP operative claimed on Thursday that there’s “buzz out there” around the idea of former President Donald Trump being “crowned” speaker of the House if Republicans retake the legislative body in 2022 — and he wasn’t joking.
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, offered the surprising claim while speaking with Newsmax host John Bachman.
Starting off the discussion, Bachman said he believes “the road to 2022” starts in Ohio, where the former president intends to hold his first post-presidential rally on June 26th.
“I think the road to 2022 really starts in Columbus, Ohio, because we’re going to see one of the kind of the classic Trump rallies. I imagine there’s going to be a massive crowd there. Trump’s also going to go to Tampa, Florida, and the border,” he said.
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Uh no...
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Uh no...
Uh....yes.
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They could.
And the only reason they would offer such an insulting position would be to deny him a chance of winning the nomination in 2024.
Trump has no skill in Congress. That's not where his innate statesmanship skills come to life.
And he would turn down the position if offered, which the RINOs would equally use against him.
Put Marjorie Greene in as Speakerette. She seems to have more balls than any of the metrosexuals the GOP has sent to the House in recent decades.
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They could.
And the only reason they would offer such an insulting position would be to deny him a chance of winning the nomination in 2024.
Trump has no skill in Congress. That's not where his innate statesmanship skills come to life.
And he would turn down the position if offered, which the RINOs would equally use against him.
Put Marjorie Greene in as Speakerette. She seems to have more balls than any of the metrosexuals the GOP has sent to the House in recent decades.
He doesn't need "skill"...on a day to day basis McCarthy could still act as Speaker. Trump would be empowered to address congress AT HIS WILL on the key issues they face, and by extension address the nation. THAT would be the value of the position...he would not have to do any day to day "grinding of the sausage".
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This malarkey scheme gets mentioned every few years, just with different names proposed for the slot, and it's not going to happen now just as it hasn't happened then. The House is not about to name an outsider as its speaker, period, so let's stop wasting keyboard strokes on the idea.
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He doesn't need "skill"...on a day to day basis McCarthy could still act as Speaker. Trump would be empowered to address congress AT HIS WILL on the key issues they face, and by extension address the nation. THAT would be the value of the position...he would not have to do any day to day "grinding of the sausage".
The job of the Speaker is to control the flow of legislation through the House. It's not a figure-head sinecure.
Trump does not have the personality to herd legislation through Congress.
And nobody else is going to be willing to be his sausage grinder. And Trump became a billionaire by grinding his own sausages. Trump wouldn't accept this, either.
It's a dumb idea promoted by people who don't understand.
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How about someone like Mark Levin or Allen West?
"Get off the floor, you big dope!"
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This malarkey scheme gets mentioned every few years, just with different names proposed for the slot, and it's not going to happen now just as it hasn't happened then. The House is not about to name an outsider as its speaker, period, so let's stop wasting keyboard strokes on the idea.
Honestly I'd never seen this cockamamie notion for anyone else before, then again, this is the first time in my voting lifetime that the Rodents successfully worked the Big Steal.
But I agree that it would never happen.
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Just talking with a former governor of my state, when I asked him if he'd ever consider running for Congress, he basically said that is an entirely different skill set, and completely different from the executive role.
Trump has ever been an executive, in business and in politics.