Trump Credited With Calling in to Close Deal for McCarthy

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Former President Donald Trump was derided for having some of his staunch supporters holding out against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., but Trump’s dramatic call to House chamber to Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., is credited for closing the deal.

“Thank you Kevin,” Trump posted this morning to Truth Social, along with video of the newly tapped speaker hailing Trump’s late-night call. “It was my great honor!”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., an advocate for the rights of the imprisoned Jan. 6 defendants, tweeted photos of the calls from Trump to the six holdouts standing firm against McCarthy through the 14th failed vote.

“I do want to especially thank President Trump,” McCarthy, once a critic of Trump from Jan. 6, 2021, told reporters after his speaker acceptance speech and the swearing-in of members. “I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning. Somebody wrote the doubt of whether he was there. And he was all in. He would call me and he would call others.

“He really was — and I was just talking to him tonight — helping get those final votes.”

Trump’s calls to the six holdouts against McCarthy came as Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., had to be restrained by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., when shouting down Gaetz for continuing to hold out, forcing a potential vote to adjourn until Monday and, ultimately, a 15th vote that proved to be successful.

As tempers cooled, within the hour, McCarthy and Trump had persuaded the holdouts to vote “present,” lowering the vote total necessary for McCarthy to win and handing him the speakership by early Saturday morning.

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