House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy — in his pathetic desperation to become the Speaker of the House after the GOP’s narrow success in the midterms — may have just screwed himself out of his entire congressional career, if one former Republican lawmaker’s prediction shakes out to be correct.
Former Florida Republican House Rep. David Jolly talked with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes yesterday, as the Speaker debacle was going down, and laid out a series of several scenarios that could shake out for House Republicans after McCarthy’s Speaker vote humiliation, where he failed a brutal three times to secure the votes needed for the Speakership on the House floor, in front of God and everybody.
Jolly first laid out a scenario in which McCarthy bends to every last little whim and demand of House Republicans in hopes that they will ultimately, reluctantly vote him in as Speaker of the House.
In his second possible scenario, Jolly theorized that McCarthy could drop out of the race and House Republicans flock to an alternative Speaker candidate such as Elise Stefanik or Steve Scalise, though Jolly did note that he doesn’t see the controversial Rep. Jim Jordan having any semblance of success in a Speakership run.
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Jolly outlined a third scenario, that he deemed the least likely of them all, in which a minority of Republican congresspeople would cross the aisle and join forces with their Democratic colleagues to reach a consensus candidate for House Speaker.
But none of that served as the worst part for McCarthy personally. Jolly went on to predict that regardless of how this whole thing shakes out, Kevin McCarthy will enter the beginning of the end of his congressional career in the coming days, thanks in large part to this ridiculous debacle.
“McCarthy is done, done, done,” Jolly said. “He’s not going to be next Speaker. I don’t think Kevin McCarthy is in the House of Representatives a year from now. I think he is gone.”
Watch the MSNBC clip here:
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