Kevin McCarthy: Trump wants to be speaker – By Carly Roman (Washington Examiner) / June 20 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says former President Donald Trump may consider taking on a different governmental role if Republicans reclaim the House in 2022.
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McCarthy, who is often considered as a front-runner for the speakership if the GOP wins back the lower chamber in next year’s midterm elections, says the former president has said that he wants to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi, although the California Republican is pushing him to run for his old job.
“You know, I’ve talked to President Trump many times. He tells me he wants to be speaker, and I think he should be president,” McCarthy told Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on Friday.