Gaetz: Hakeem Jeffries Not Really in Charge of Democrats, He’s Just the ‘Frontman’ | The Gateway Pundit

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida argued Sunday that Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries is only a “frontman” for former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The topic got here up throughout an interview on Newsmax within the context of studies some House Republicans have been trying to strike a take care of Democrats with the intention to elect a Home speaker apart from Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Gaetz stated he’s shocked that backing Jordan is a troublesome choice for some Republican lawmakers.

The congressman defined the explanation Kevin McCarthy is not speaker is as a result of he had misplaced the belief of a gaggle of members of the Republican convention as a consequence of not dwelling as much as the agreements he made in January to safe the place.

“I feel Jim Jordan has quite a lot of belief amongst conservative Republicans, extra reasonable Republicans. He’s certainly one of our only campaigners and fundraisers. He’s a person of imaginative and prescient and braveness and advantage,” Gaetz stated.

“And the one motive we aren’t taking a vote on Jim Jordan tomorrow is as a result of the swamp desires a chance to regroup and reconstitute and threaten Home conservatives that if we don’t take again Kevin McCarthy, like some jilted ex, by some means we’re going to be compelled right into a take care of Democrats that empowers Hakeem Jeffries and Republicans who may need to try this take care of Democrats,” he continued.

After Jim Jordan was elected Speaker-Designate on Friday, Speaker Professional Tem @PatrickMcHenry made us take Saturday off, Sunday off, and now MONDAY OFF!

The Swamp is making an attempt to delay a vote on the Home flooring so long as doable, hoping conservatives will transfer backward to Kevin… pic.twitter.com/Z9SjqiNRz0

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) October 15, 2023

“We should always not go backward to Kevin McCarthy. We should always go ahead with Jim Jordan,” Gaetz stated.

The consultant subsequent contended that Pelosi continues to be the one actually accountable for Democrats, behind the scenes.

“Nancy Pelosi guidelines with an iron fist,” Gaetz stated. “And by the way in which, she’s nonetheless the one accountable for that convention. I imply, Hakeem Jeffries is the frontman, however the person who’s actually calling the photographs among the many Democrats is Nancy Pelosi.”

“She’s the one who made the choice that they didn’t need to personal McCarthy, and that’s why they didn’t help him on my movement to vacate,” he added.

In different phrases, if even some Democrats had voted towards the movement to vacate the speaker chair, it could have appeared they have been saving McCarthy’s job.

On Oct. 3, Gaetz, together with seven different Republicans, joined all of the Home Democrats to take away McCarthy as speaker. The ultimate vote was 216-210.

“As Republicans, our common nature is to be extra independent-minded, to be extra impartial pondering” than the Democrats, Gaetz noticed.

“We query centralized management of issues as a pure a part of our ideology, so we’re a little bit bit extra unruly at instances, however I feel that the American individuals need to see some unruliness in Washington, D.C,” he stated.

Some Republicans need to reduce a take care of Democrat chief Hakeem Jeffries to elect a Speaker.

With Democrats controlling the White Home and the Senate, we should not hand over management of the Home.

Republicans ought to unite behind Jim Jordan as our Speaker of the Home!

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 15, 2023

As of Monday, help for a Jordan speakership seemed to be gaining momentum as holdouts together with Reps. Mike Rogers of Alabama, Ken Calvert of California, and Ann Wagner of Missouri, got here on board.

Throughout a Monday Fox Information interview, McCarthy himself stated the GOP convention ought to again Jordan.

It’s one factor to get elected. It’s one other factor to control.

It’s time to get the Home out of this tailspin, come collectively, and get America again heading in the right direction.@Jim_Jordan can do it. pic.twitter.com/gTk23QB9NM

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) October 16, 2023

“My focus is to get Jim Jordan elected speaker. Get this congress again transferring once more,” McCarthy stated.

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.