The House GOP rebels who ousted ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the fall are now hesitant to embrace the new push to boot current House Speaker Mike Johnson from the job.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea. The support\u2019s not there. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re getting it out of the way, but waiting another week just keeps it in the press,\u2019 Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Burchett spoke with Fox News Digital hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced she would force a House-wide vote on ousting Johnson, R-La., sometime next week via a procedural move known as a motion to vacate the chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She filed her resolution in late March, but she is expected to note it as \u2018privileged\u2019 next week \u2013 meaning House leaders will have two legislative days to either call a vote on the measure itself or first try to kill it via a vote to table the resolution.<\/p>\n
However, beyond finding impassioned support in Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Greene\u2019s push has mostly fallen flat within the House GOP. That includes the seven remaining House Republicans out of the original eight who voted with Democrats to boot McCarthy, R-Calif., in early October.<\/p>\n
When asked what was different about the situation now, Burchett told reporters the rebels were \u2018100% sure that we\u2019d put a Republican in.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019ve got Republicans in districts [where] Democrats won the White House by 15 points. So in an election year, anything can happen,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Additionally, while nearly all the rebels expressed disappointment in their belief that Johnson has not fought hard enough for House GOP priorities since winning the gavel in late October, most were hesitant to say if they wanted to go through another midterm speaker election \u2013 while others outright rejected the idea.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t support the motion to vacate. I\u2019m still recovering from the first one,\u2019 Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. told Fox News Digital on Monday.<\/p>\n
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who spearheaded McCarthy\u2019s ouster, said, \u2018I\u2019ll probably support a motion to table it.\u2019<\/p>\n
When asked what he thought of Greene announcing she would force the vote next week, Gaetz told Fox News Digital, \u2018I think everybody\u2019s got the weekend to think about it.\u2019<\/p>\n
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., indicated last month that he wanted a new House GOP leader but pointed out that Republicans had a thinner majority than when he and the others forced out McCarthy. He has not indicated anything about changing his position since.<\/p>\n
\u2018I think there\u2019s a lot of dissatisfaction within the Republican Party. I think the speaker guarantees himself that there will be a contest for the speaker, I hope, in November. I think that\u2019s the wise course when you\u2019re sitting at a 216 to 213 margin,\u2019 Good told reporters.<\/p>\n
Similarly, both Reps. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., expressed displeasure with Johnson\u2019s leadership but told CNN and The Hill respectively that a Johnson ouster is not likely right now.<\/p>\n
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who is retiring at the end of this year, would not give reporters an indication of his thinking earlier this week.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s my understanding that even if she tries to move it, we\u2019ve got, I don\u2019t know, 48 hours to figure out what\u2019s going to happen,\u2019 Rosendale said. \u2018So I guess I have plenty of time to think about it.\u2019<\/p>\n
When asked about their lukewarm reception to her push, Greene told Fox News Digital, \u2018I think that\u2019s the question you\u2019ll have to ask them.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018But if they stand by the words and the statements that they made when they voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership after he basically did nothing wrong, I would think that they would be the first ones running to vote to vacate Mike Johnson,\u2019 Greene said.<\/p>\n
In comments to reporters alongside Greene, however, Massie said early on Wednesday evening that he anticipates more GOP support next week.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ll go out on a limb and predict there\u2019ll be enough votes to show that Mike Johnson can\u2019t be elected speaker in January because although he can get Democrat votes on a motion to table, it\u2019s not a motion to table vote on January 3rd,\u2019 Massie said, referring to closed-door House GOP leadership elections.<\/p>\n
Both Massie and Greene were emphatically against toppling McCarthy last year.<\/p>\n
The eighth Republican who voted to oust McCarthy, former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., left the House in March before the end of his term.<\/p>\n\n
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