Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) urged President-elect Trump to personally name Home Republicans and urge them to again Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to maintain his gavel.
“I strongly encourage Donald Trump to get on the phone with those five or six members who won’t commit to voting for Mike Johnson because all this is going to do is delay us,” Comer mentioned in a Sunday interview on Fox Information’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“It’s going to delay the certification of President Trump’s election. It’s going to delay the start of his first 100 days in office, which is the most important time frame of his whole presidency,” he continued. “That’s when you get the most done, historically.”
“So, I strongly encourage President Trump to get on the phone and try to get everyone united so we can work together as a team and make America great again,” Comer added within the interview, which was carried out earlier than Trump publicly backed Johnson’s Speakership bid on Monday.
Comer mentioned he was involved that Friday’s Speakership vote may see a repeat of final 12 months’s battle to interchange former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who was ousted from his put up after just a few Republicans voted with Democrats to take away him as Speaker.
However Comer mentioned he hopes Trump’s forthcoming time period in workplace will incentivize Republicans to unite behind Johnson, who can’t afford to lose any extra Republican votes. Johnson wants 218 votes to be elected Speaker, and there shall be 219 Republicans voting.
Democrats have made clear they’d not again Johnson’s bid, and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has come out towards Johnson for Speaker.
“We have seen it play out over the past two years. It was very difficult for Kevin McCarthy. It’s been very difficult for Mike Johnson. It would be very difficult for whomever would be elected Speaker of our conference,” Comer mentioned.
“At the end of the day, the difference between the 119th Congress and the 118th Congress is, we will have a Republican president, a strong Republican president who’s very popular with Republican congressmen’s constituents back home, and that’s Donald Trump,” Comer added.
