David Jolly: ‘Hakeem Jeffries Is the Speaker of the House Right Now’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
CAPEHART: “You know, David, if Mike Johnson had to rely on Democrats to keep his job and also has to rely on them to successfully govern, doesn’t that make the speakership Republican in name only?”
JOLLY: “Sure, Jonathan. Hakeem Jeffries is the speaker of the House right now, he really has been for the past 18 months or so. If you look at the legislation that had to pass from the debt ceiling increase to keeping the government open last year, aid to Ukraine, and now saving the actual office of the speakership, it’s been a Hakeem Jeffries-led democratic coalition that has allowed the house to govern, and to function. You use the term epic fail by Marjorie Taylor Greene. There is such a glorious incompetence from the lady from Georgia in this. And I mean it, incompetence. If you consider what Matt Gaetz did, he succeded, he was a tactician. You can like or hate the guy, but he knows what he’s doing. Marjorie Taylor Greene really doesn’t know what she’s doing. But I’d suggest the writing is on the wall for Mike Johnson, he will not be Speaker in January. Hakeem Jeffries could become speaker, or, if Republicans hold the house, we have seen he does not have enough votes within his caucus to remain speaker, and Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats will not bail him out in January. House Republicans will have a new leader in January if the return to the majority.”