'They should all be driven out of public life,' the former House speaker said of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy from his post.
on Tuesday with the support of eight Republicans—many of them the same hard-right lawmakers who had tried to stop McCarthy from becoming speaker in January—and all the Democrats present and voting. The vote made McCarthy the first speaker in U.S. history to be voted out of the position by his colleagues.
Gingrich noted that 96 percent of the Republican conference had voted for McCarthy as speaker in January. "We ought to be focusing on Biden, we ought to be focusing on the economy, we ought to be focusing on the border," he said."Instead, you're going to get a week or 10 days of the media focusing on Republican disarray. It's an astonishingly destructive behavior by a handful of egocentric people who think they're superior to 96 percent of the conference."
Gingrich and the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy have been contacted for comment via email. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during the America First Agenda Summit on July 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Gingrich described the eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from his post as House speaker as"traitors."Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, a McCarthy ally, was named speaker pro tempore, and will serve in the office until a new speaker is chosen.He reserved harsh words for Gaetz."You all know Matt Gaetz," he added.
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