Denying Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speakership is not advancing the Make America Great Again agenda popularized by former President Donald Trump, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“They would like to pretend it is,” Gingrich, a contributor to The Epoch Times, said in an interview.
McCarthy has failed to garner enough support to be the speaker after 12 consecutive votes from his 222-seat majority, making it the longest fight since before the Civil War. Most of the 20 hardline Republicans who consistently opposed his candidacy belong to the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus and were endorsed by Trump during the midterms last November.
But even Trump’s backing—appealing to the rebels to “close the deal” and not “turn a great triumph into a giant & embarrassing defeat”—failed to swing them this time around….