{"id":458889,"date":"2023-01-05T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T06:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=458889"},"modified":"2023-01-13T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:24:28","slug":"why-trump-s-house-gop-allies-are-snubbing-his-public-plea-to-make-kevin-mccarthy-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-trump-s-house-gop-allies-are-snubbing-his-public-plea-to-make-kevin-mccarthy-speaker","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump&#8217;s House GOP allies are snubbing his public plea to make Kevin McCarthy speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has now lost six straight votes for House speaker, thanks to committed opposition from a core group of House Republicans , most of them in the hard-right Freedom Caucus and most allied with former President Donald Trump. Trump has been privately calling them for weeks to urge their support for McCarthy&#8217;s speakership bid, Politico and The Washington Post report , and on Wednesday morning &#8212; before McCarthy&#8217;s latest three losing&nbsp;votes &#8212; Trump made his plea public in a post on Truth Social that was also emailed around by this 2024 presidential campaign. &#8220;VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY,&#8221; Trump wrote . &#8220;Sad!&#8221; responded &#8220;Never Kevin&#8221; leader Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a staunch Trump ally, in a statement to Fox News. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said on the House floor , while nominating someone other than McCarthy, that Trump had called her and her Never-Kevin allies to &#8220;tell us we need to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has now lost six straight votes for House speaker, thanks to committed opposition from a core group of House Republicans, most of them in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}