The House GOP rebels who ousted ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the fall are now hesitant to embrace the new push to boot current House Speaker Mike Johnson from the job. 'I don't think it's a good idea. The support’s not there. I'm glad they're getting it out of the way, but waiting another week just keeps it in the press,' Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said on Wednesday. Burchett spoke with Fox News Digital hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
However, beyond finding impassioned support in Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Greene's push has mostly fallen flat within the House GOP. That includes the seven remaining House Republicans out of the original eight who voted with Democrats to boot McCarthy, R-Calif., in early October. When asked what was different about the situation now, Burchett told reporters the rebels were '100% sure that we'd put a Republican in.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who is retiring at the end of this year, would not give reporters an indication of his thinking earlier this week. 'It’s my understanding that even if she tries to move it, we’ve got, I don't know, 48 hours to figure out what’s going to happen,' Rosendale said. 'So I guess I have plenty of time to think about it.
'll go out on a limb and predict there'll be enough votes to show that Mike Johnson can't be elected speaker in January because although he can get Democrat votes on a motion to table, it's not a motion to table vote on January 3rd,' Massie said, referring to closed-door House GOP leadership elections. Both Massie and Greene were emphatically against toppling McCarthy last year. The eighth Republican who voted to oust McCarthy, former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo.
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