{"id":568587,"date":"2021-06-19T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568587"},"modified":"2021-06-19T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:06:26","slug":"mccarthys-office-clarifies-comments-after-multiple-people-claim-he-said-trump-wanted-to-be-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthys-office-clarifies-comments-after-multiple-people-claim-he-said-trump-wanted-to-be-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy\u2019s Office Clarifies Comments After Multiple People Claim He Said Trump Wanted To Be House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthys-office-clarifies-comments-after-multiple-people-claim-he-said-trump-wanted-to-be-house-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-11.20.53-AM-e1624123793609.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Multiple people claimed Friday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said former President Donald Trump has his eye on the House Speaker\u2019s gavel, causing confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/27\/brian-kilmeade-kamala-harris-handling-border-crisis-embarrassment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Kilmeade<\/a> asked McCarthy, who would be at the front of the line to be the next Speaker of the House if Republicans regained control of the chamber in 2022, what he thought about rumors that the former president might also express an interest in that position. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/poll-78-capitol-hill-staffers-gop-take-back-house-senate-2022\/\">(RELATED: POLL: 78% Of Capitol Hill Staffers Believe GOP Will Take Back The House In 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/11\/brian-kilmeade-nancy-pelosi-impeachment-mike-pence-donald-trump-twenty-fifth-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kilmeade<\/a> said he had heard \u201ctalk out there\u201d about the possibility that Trump could run for a House seat or be made House Speaker<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you be for President Trump becoming speaker?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I have talked to President Trump many times,\u201d McCarthy replied. \u201cHe tells me he wants me speaker, and I think he should be president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s response was just garbled enough that some believed he said Trump wanted to be speaker himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.383399209486\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">KILMEADE: \u201cWould you be for President Trump becoming speaker?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MCCARTHY: \u201cYou know, I\u2019ve talked to President Trump many times. He tells me he wants to be speaker. And I think he should be president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanstruyk\/status\/1406251158939869186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.6034482758621\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the first time I\u2019ve heard someone acknowledge the idea that trump wants to become speaker. I\u2019m very surprised McCarthy has acknowledged this publicly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKOquR8N7X\">https:\/\/t.co\/vKOquR8N7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1406257035008790530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.039603960396\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every Republican House candidate running in 2022 should be asked, on the record, whether he or she would vote for Trump for Speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhpaeq6KJ3\">https:\/\/t.co\/hhpaeq6KJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1406258599177900032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.577507598784\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You don\u2019t have to be a member of Congress to be elected Speaker by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump owns the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>So if Republicans take back the House in 2022 and Donald Trump really wants to be Speaker then he will be Speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YEX7NNgv72\">https:\/\/t.co\/YEX7NNgv72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoaquinCastrotx\/status\/1406259507106299909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But a spokesperson from McCarthy\u2019s office clarified the statement to the Daily Caller, saying that he had meant Trump wanted McCarthy to be speaker: \u201cMcCarthy meant and said he wants \u2018me\u2019 to be Speaker, but I understand that might not have sounded crystal clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.75\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m told in this clip, McCarthy said trump wants MCCARTHY to be speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKOquR8N7X\">https:\/\/t.co\/vKOquR8N7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1406261293716230146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy followed his answer by saying that winning back the House should be the priority going into 2022, arguing that concerns about whether or not the Senate might do away with the filibuster would be less urgent because the bills Democrats wanted to push through would never make it to the Senate in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are the Democrats doing with this majority? They not only want to change the election law, they want to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., states. Why? They are doing everything they can to change the structure and constitutionality of our country so they can maintain control illegally,\u201d McCarthy continued. \u201cThat\u2019s something we never want to see happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right. Leader McCarthy could be Speaker McCarthy. Might be Speaker Trump. We will have to find out,\u201d Kilmeade concluded the segment.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/556967-so-interesting-trump-pitched-on-idea-to-run-for-house-become-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addressed the possibility<\/a> in early June during a radio interview with Wayne Allyn Root by saying that others had suggested he run for a senate seat and adding, \u201cyou know what, your idea might be better. It\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people claimed Friday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said former President Donald Trump has his eye on the House Speaker\u2019s gavel, causing confusion.Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280769,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-11.20.53-AM-e1624123793609.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy\u2019s Office Clarifies Comments After Multiple People Claim He Said Trump Wanted To Be House Speaker","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-11.20.53-AM-e1624123793609.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy\u2019s Office Clarifies Comments After Multiple People Claim He Said Trump Wanted To Be House Speaker","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}