House GOP's Trump defenders eye long game with McCarthy and avoid fight for now
CNN
Donald Trump's staunchest allies don't like what they heard House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying on tape about the ex-President and some of their GOP colleagues after the Capitol attack. But they and the former President are holding their fire -- at least for now.
Most members of the party's MAGA faction see little political upside to picking a distracting fight with McCarthy as Republicans remain favored to win the House in the fall, according to GOP sources familiar with their thinking, and would rather hold on to their potential leverage for an anticipated speaker's race later this year, when they're hoping to extract key concessions from McCarthy. Said one Republican source: "Of course" that's what they're planning to do.
And in a sign of just how essential their support may be down the road, Republican leaders have worked hard to court members of their right flank -- including some of the very same fringe members whom they once feared posed a danger to their colleagues after January 6, 2021.
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