Former President Donald Trump said Monday that only one person could be elected Speaker of the House: “Jesus Christ.”
The House has been without a speaker since Kevin McCarthy was removed from office in a bipartisan vote by eight Republicans and all Democrats. Mr. Trump, Most likely candidate The Republican presidential nominee, who has expressed interest in running for the role, suggested on Monday that Christ would be the only one with the 217 House Republican votes needed to be elected. (Related: President Trump says he will temporarily accept the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives)
“There are some great people out there. The threshold for that floor is very tough. I said there’s only one person who can make it all the way. Do you know who that is? Jesus Christ,” Trump said. said during a visit to New Hampshire on Monday. “If he came down and said, ‘I want to be a speaker,’ he would do it.”
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Trump was in New Hampshire to file his candidacy for the state’s Republican primary, which is scheduled to take place on an unscheduled date in January. Among voters in the state, he leads his likely nominee by nearly 30 percentage points. according to Go to RealClearPolitics.
“Other than that, I haven’t seen anyone else who can vouch for that. But I think at some point, very soon, we’ll have someone,” Trump added in his remarks. Trump frequently uses Christ in his speeches and political media, posting: sketch A photo of him sitting next to Christ in a courtroom, presumably during a trial, according to an Instagram post on Friday.
One Republican, Mark Alford of Missouri’s 4th District, previously suggested Christ would not be able to get 217 votes in the chamber. according to Go to NBC News. The last two candidates in the House Republican conference, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, lost their bids due to opposition from the small number of House Republicans who control a majority of the four House seats.
The Apostolic Nuncio to the United States did not respond to requests for comment.
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