The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Fri, 03 Jan 2025
Charlie was watching live as House Republicans made their move to dump Mike Johnson as speaker — only to swerve back and elect him to another term. Even before the votes were cast (and then recast), Charlie asks: What's the point behind all of this? Kurt Schlichter, Jack Posobiec, and freshly-departed former Rep. Matt Gaetz join. Become a member at members.charliekirk.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is happening with the House Speaker race?
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The American people spoke, and despite all of the prognosticators and experts, Republicans are going to control all three chambers of government, the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Well, it'll be two branches. Yeah, I guess three chambers is fair. Well, two chambers. All three levers of power, you could say. There's a lot of questions, though.
And today, as we are doing this broadcast, it's going to be happening live. We have a very serious Speaker of the House situation. Mike Johnson's tenuous speakership might collapse today. The new Congress is assembling, and that means Congress must select a speaker. Republicans have the narrowest majority in living memory, and that's making things very complicated.
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Chapter 2: Why is Mike Johnson's speakership in jeopardy?
They want the guy who's most ideologically copacetic, and that's not what he does. He's really a conductor, a traffic director, a guy who puts together coalitions and raises money.
um as long as he's not undermining you he's probably okay ideologically but again what's the plan andy biggs you know what's the plan massey uh chip roy who i i like what's the plan chip what's the plan i i'd like to know because if you don't have a plan you're gonna fail and And I agree.
I think I think, Kurt, if you were to ask them privately, they would say the plan is performative, which I think is silly. However, is there a place in politics for like we're at least going to put up the the the motions of some sort of a fight? Or is that just completely silly and should be dismissed?
Well, look, we have been putting up a fight. We we beat back that 1500 page atrocity and, you know, did a continuing resolution, which is bad. But it was nowhere near as bad as what what we beat down. So we are making progress. Look, you don't. We're going to take two steps forward and one step back. And I think we need to stop as a movement expecting perfection all the time.
On the other hand, we also cannot never expect perfection. You were very eloquent when you were saying, oh, well, we can't do it. It's too close to the election. It's Christmas vacation. My dog's at the veterinarian's. We can't get this passed. We don't have to accept that. That's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that we need to understand that we've got a three to four vote majority that's going to be tight. It's going to give individual congressmen the chance to be showboats. And human nature says that out of about 222 congressmen, you're going to have a few who want to get that spotlight. And the way they get that spotlight is by saying no. So we're in a tough position.
I think we'd be in a much better position if we had more congressmen. And I think if we had Kevin McCarthy, as much as I have problems with Kevin McCarthy, and I certainly do, I think we would have won more seats because he's a very savvy operator, even if he does make me want to pound my head into the wall sometimes. So we are where we are. We got to make the best of it.
And that means acting as adults and trying to achieve 90% of what we want rather than 0%.
Here is here is the update right now is that as we're here live for Republicans, Biggs, Cloud, Gosar and Harris have not responded to the speaker vote. And of course, Carson is Democrat as well. They then get to go at the end and kind of do some melodrama. I would not be surprised if this goes to a second and third ballot. Kurt, let's assume that Johnson does survive.
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