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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," conservative campaign consultant Tara Setmayer predicted that, should the Republican Party reclaim the House in November, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not replace Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as the House Speaker.
"Is there a chance McCarthy could become speaker, but without any real power within the party," host Capehart asked.
"Donald Trump cannot wait to humiliate Kevin McCarthy even further."
"We've seen this," she added. "He gets off on the idea of Kevin McCarthy's fealty.
When McCarthy went on the floor of the House like [Mitch] McConnell did after January six, they actually spoke the truth about how they felt but what was going on. They had a chance to off-ramp from Trump, and when everyone thought maybe this is it, what did he do?
Two weeks later, he goes down to Mar-a-Lago and he gives them some dollar store trophy and smiles next to him and he thinks this is going to work. It is not."
spoiler:
She works for Lincoln Project